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Claire Kilroy


Born
Dublin, Ireland
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Claire Kilroy is the author of five novels including Soldier Sailor, All Summer, Tenderwire, and The Devil I Know. She was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2004 and has been shortlisted for many other prizes, including the Irish Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. She studied at Trinity College and lives in Dublin.

Average rating: 4.01 · 14,427 ratings · 2,271 reviews · 6 distinct worksSimilar authors
Soldier Sailor

4.05 avg rating — 13,402 ratings — published 2023 — 29 editions
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Tenderwire

3.72 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions
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The Devil I Know

3.55 avg rating — 389 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions
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All Names Have Been Changed

3.03 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions
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All Summer

3.41 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions
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“Eat it, smoke it, stay up all night for it because the memories of the damage you wreak upon your body when you are young will sustain your spirit when you are old.”
Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

“I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will become. So come to me. When you need me, come. When you are lost, when are you low: come. When the birds have stopped singing, or you have stopped hearing, because they never stop singing. They are birds.”
Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

“Here's my ennobling truth, Sailor: women risk death to give life to their babies. They endure excruciating pain, their inner parts torn, then they pick themselves up no matter what state they are in, no matter how much blood they've lost, and they tend to their infants… Tell me, men: when were you last split open from the inside?”
Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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