Rathangan author longlisted for international book prize

Lynn Buckle has been longlisted by The Barbellion Prize for her second novel ‘What Willow Says’ which was published earlier this year by époque press. The winner will be announced later in 2022. While the author celebrates deafness in What Willow Says, her book is also a paean to the Bog of Allen and the natural world. It was selected by the Irish Times and the Sunday Independent as a Best Books of the Year 2021. Available from Woodbine Books in Kilcullen, Maynooth Books, and bookshops nationwide.