Excellent Writing With No Discernible Purpose
My review of “Prophet Song” by Paul Lynch
4 min readFeb 5, 2024
The 2023 Booker Prize winner is a novel about a mother’s determination to protect her children. Eilish has four. Three with ages ranging from 12 to 16 and a late addition who, at the start of the book, is under one year old. She also has a father suffering from the early stages of dementia.