Evoking the beauty and wilderness of the south-west of Ireland, Seven Steeples spins a luminous tale of love, choices and belonging, revolving around a young couple who decide to cut themselves off from the world and live in harmony with nature.
Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2023
Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2023
The mountain remained, unclimbed, for the first year that they lived there.
Bell and Sigh, a couple in the infancy of their relationship, cut themselves off from friends and family. They turn their backs on a city divided by scores of streets and hundreds of sterile cherry trees, by a foul river and a declining population of house sparrows.
Them in and the world out.
From the top of the nearby mountain, they are told, you can see seven standing stones, seven schools, and seven steeples. All you have to do is climb. Taking place in a remote house in the south-west of Ireland, this rich and vivid novel spans seven years and speaks to the times we live in, asking how we may withdraw, how better to live in the natural world, and how the choices made or avoided lead us home.
Publisher: Tramp Press
ISBN: 9781916291485
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