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We are delighted to announce the Kennys Exclusive Signed Limited Edition of Colm Tóibín's short story A Long Winter, available for the first time in a beautiful standalone edition - pre-order now at Kennys! Colm Tóbín is an award-winning Irish novelist, essayist, playwright and poet. He is the author of 11 novels including The Master, Brooklyn, and The Magician. He has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize three times, and was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024. A Long Winter follows Miquel as he searches for his missing mother, battling the elements of a harsh winter in the Pyrenees. It will be published in September.
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KENNYS EXCLUSIVE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION • Signed and Numbered by the Author • Hardback, with design exclusive to Kennys • Limited to 1,000 copies
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| COLM TÓIBÍN A LONG WINTER HARDBACK Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition Out September 2025 €15.99 6% OFF! €14.99
About the Book One snowy morning, after arguing with her husband, Miquel’s mother walks out from their home high up in the Pyrenees and does not return. With his younger brother stationed far away on military service and his father cast out by the people of the town, Miquel and his father are left to fend for themselves. Together they will be forced to battle the elements, and their resentment of each other, through the long winter. Miquel’s desperate searching for his mother is only interrupted when Manolo, an orphaned servant boy from the next village, arrives to help out in the house. As Miquel is forced to confront the reality of his mother's absence, Manolo, with his silences and longing gaze, offers the promise of new love, and another kind of life.
PRAISE FOR A LONG WINTER The most striking example of Tóibín's emotional control . . . [An] eloquent expression of the bond between a mother and a son. THE GUARDIAN A Long Winter evokes loss, lonelieness, guilt and survival in a few masterly strokes. THE INDEPENDENT A superbly powerful tale of betrayal and desertion. Quintessential Tóibín. THE SPECTATOR A beautiful tale of filial grief, sexual hunger and hard-won acceptance of mutability and loss. KIRKUS REVIEWS
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