New paperback edition of Penelope Unbound by Mary Morrissy
Having sold out of the original print run of Mary Morrissy’s acclaimed novel Penelope Unbound, we’re delighted to announce the release of a new mass market paperback edition on 20 February 2025.
Penelope Unbound was selected as a best book of 2023 by The New Statesman, The Last Word on Today FM and the Irish Examiner, and introduced readers to an unforgettable rendering of Irish literary heroine Norah Barnacle.
Read more about Penelope Unbound and pre-order the new edition!
“A novel of great brilliance and inventiveness, a remarkably – and mysteriously – moving story of what might have been ... It is a stylistic tour de force that Joyce himself would surely have admired: [Norah’s] voice is earthy, funny, by turns knockabout and melancholy, plain and lyrical, accepting and bitterly regretful.”
