The Spinning Heart

The Spinning Heart is a social novel written by Irish novelist Donal Ryan.

[4][5] It won the 2013 Guardian First Book Award[6] It also won the European Union Prize for Literature (Ireland) in 2015[7] It was longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize[8] and shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2014.

[10] The Spinning Heart is set in the aftermath of the collapse of the Celtic Tiger.

Each chapter is told from the perspective of a different character, affected by the recession in a different way as a local property developer, Pokey Burke, goes bust and flees the country.

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First edition