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Exiled from Ireland under dubious circumstances, Roy now works as a cleaner at the Wunderland miniature exhibition in Hamburg. Struggling to connect with those around him, he commits secret acts of violence against the tiny scenes and figurines on display. Then, to Roy’s palpable annoyance, his sister Gert visits, determined to uncover what really prompted his sudden move abroad and carrying a threadbare hope that she might finally figure him out. But Gert is fighting her own demons, having checked out of her exhausting family life where she is fading amidst her husband’s deepening depression. All the while, unbeknownst to her, Roy is planning something huge in this miniature world, a statement, an act of great destruction that might just be the best thing that ever happens to them.
Atmospheric, humorous and ultimately uplifting, Wunderland is a brilliantly wrought dual character study that sensitively wrestles family and mental health, identity and the erasure of self.
Praise for Wunderland
They say that the voice is dead in modern literature, that one good author’s voice sounds just like another. Caitríona Lally’s work makes a lie of that. She delights in language and in bringing multifaceted, believable characters and their complicated relationships to the page. If what you’re after is an accessible, funny and real read, pick this book.— ESTELLE BIRDY, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT.
Caitríona Lally’s absorbing Wunderland is an insightful sibling study— SUE LEONARD, IRISH EXAMINER
Eccentric and ambitious ... wonderful.— PATRICK MCCABE
They’d break your heart, Roy and Gert. They will break your heart.— ANDREW MEEHAN
My novel of the year!— SARA BAUME
A novel of huge invention from a seriously funny writer.— KEVIN BARRY
