How to Build a Boat

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeA funny and deeply moving novel about a boy, his dream, and...
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Author: Elaine Feeney
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How to Build a Boat by Feeney, Elaine

How to Build a Boat

$40.65

How to Build a Boat

$40.65
Author: Elaine Feeney
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize

A funny and deeply moving novel about a boy, his dream, and the people who lend him a hand, by the acclaimed author of As You Were

Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age thirteen, there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother, Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind these things are intimately linked. And at his new school, where all else is disorientating and overwhelming, he finds two people who might just be able to help him.

How to Build a Boat is the story of how one boy and his mission transforms the lives of his teachers, Tess and Tadhg, and brings together a community. Written with tenderness and verve, it's about love, family and connection, the power of imagination, and how our greatest adventures never happen alone.



Author: Elaine Feeney
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 11/07/2023
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781771965859


Award: Man Booker Prize - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 08/21/2023

About the Author

Elaine Feeney is a writer from the west of Ireland. Her 2020 debut novel, As You Were, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and won the Kate O'Brien Award, the McKitterick Prize, and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award. Feeney lectures at the National University of Ireland, Galway.


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