Excellent Writing With No Discernible Purpose

My review of “Prophet Song” by Paul Lynch

Frank Parker
4 min readFeb 5, 2024

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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.

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Frank Parker

Frank is a retired Engineer from England now living in Ireland. He is trying to learn and share the lessons of history.