I only became aware of Prophet Song when it won the Booker Prize over Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, a big, important book about one of the defining issues of our time. I was selling Paul Lynch short. Prophet Song is more compact than The Bee Sting, but it’s also an important book about the world we live in. Eilish Stack is a middle-aged, middle-class Irish woman working in a science lab and raising four children with her husband Larry, a leader in the teacher’s […]