Dooneen

Keith Ridgway is the author of The Long Falling, which won both the 2001 Prix Fémina Étranger and Premier Roman Étranger. His collection of stories Standard Time won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second novel, The Parts, alongside his novella, Horses, was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2003. His novel, A Shock (2021), was shortlisted for the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize and was awarded the 2022 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction. Dooneen is his first novel to be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. He lives in London.

‘Ridgway has written a near perfect dream – a rebellion against reality, against space and form – but the blood is real, the panic, the love and friendship are there in front of you, can almost be touched. They don’t like you to say “masterpiece” in the endorsements, but read it, and tell me, what else can you call it?’— Ben Pester, author of The Expansion Project