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The Butchers (MP3)
Released the same day as the standard print edition
Title:
The Butchers (MP3)
Written by:
Ruth Gilligan 
Read by:
Jessica Regan 
Format:
Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 
Number of CDs:
Duration:
8 hours 15 minutes 
MP3 size:
358 MB 
Published:
March 26 2020 
Available Date:
March 26 2020 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9780655659235 
Genres:
Fiction; Historical Fiction 
Publisher:
Bolinda audio 
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Winner Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2021

The first novel truly to capture the story of Ireland during the BSE crisis, shown through the small, deeply intimate stories of four people caught up in its churn.

A photograph is hung on a gallery wall for the very first time since it was taken two decades before. It shows a slaughter house in rural Ireland, a painting of the Virgin Mary on the wall, a meat hook suspended from the ceiling -– and, from its sharp point, the lifeless body of a man hanging by his feet. The story of who he is and how he got there casts back into Irish folklore, of widows cursing the land and of the men who slaughter its cattle by hand. But modern Ireland is distrustful of ancient traditions, and as the BSE crisis in England presents get-rich opportunities in Ireland, few care about The Butchers, the eight men who roam the country, slaughtering the cows of those who still have faith in the old ways. Few care, that is, except for Fionn, the husband of a dying woman who still believes; their son Davey, who has fallen in love with the youngest of the Butchers; Gra, the lonely wife of one of the eight; and her 12-year-old daughter, Una, a girl who will grow up to carry a knife like her father, and who will be the one finally to avenge the man in the photograph.

'Flawlessly, intricately plotted, but with such a compelling central mystery that I binged it like a Netflix show ... The Butchers is deeply humane and astute on why we might take even the worst options available to us, at times deeply poignant and genuinely moving. It's stunning.'
Luke Kennard, author of The Transition