The Booker Prize winner last year, but I struggled with it. It's set in an Ireland that has been taken over by a fascist regime, and focuses on the effect on one ordinary family, as the crackdown on dissension starts, then the disappearances and paranoia, then the violence and desperation. It didn't scare me nearly as much as the Handmaid's Tale, say, and it was difficult to follow as it was written in indirect speech with no speech marks and in the present tense. Sentences and thoughts blended into one another, which may have added to the immediacy, but I found it tough-going.
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