Ghost Wedding

'A beautifully luminous and powerfully haunting piece of writing about the things that live in the shadows just beyond our reach, glimpsed occasionally, then lost again. I loved the way it crosses memory, the past, the secrets, the might have beens, the lost, and the paths that travel parallel with ours, without ever touching.' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 'David Park is one of Ireland's finest writers. He has written a symphony of extraordinary novels, not least Ghost Wedding which immerses us in a world where time interrogates history, passion, grief and war.' Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon 'David Park is one of Ireland's great novelists.' Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments 'A writer to cherish, a master of fiction in great form. A most splendid novel: lucid, luminous, with enough secrets to break your heart and hold you spellbound, Ghost Wedding from David Park is wonderful stuff indeed.' Frank McGuinness, author of The Factory Girls 'An astute storyteller whose vision is sustained by instinct, intelligent observation, and a sense of responsibility.' Irish Times  'Park appears to write effortlessly, with one foot planted firmly in the canon of traditional Irish lyricism and another flirting with modern parlance. His emotional intelligence is remarkable.' Daily Mail  'Time is fluid in David Park's masterfully constructed novel where the shifting plates of the past slip their boundaries, causing seismic waves in the here and now... A compelling and absolutely mesmerising read from the maestro of the quiet crescendo.' Bernie McGill, author of The Watch House 'The Belfast Turgenev... One of the truest observers of life.' Big Issue 'Our finest novelist has written his finest novel. A work of heart and wit and exquisite prose. On this sort of form there is no one to touch David Park. Even by his own exceptionally high standards, Ghost Wedding is a remarkable novel, by turns exhilarating and profound, in sentences - whole passages - that sometimes take the breath away.' Glenn Patterson, author of The International