15 best-selling ireland books like Duffy and Son by Damien Owens

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Duffy and Son

By: Damien Owens

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid, Duffy …

If you liked the ireland plot in Duffy and Son by Damien Owens , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. The Coroner's Daughter

By: Andrew Hughes

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn in the home of th… read more

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2. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Water book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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3. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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4. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

Similar categories in Elaine Feeney's How to Build a Boat book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

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5. The Island of Longing

By: Anne Griffin

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

One unremarkable afternoon, Rosie watched, from her bedroom window, her daughter Saoirse come up th… read more

Similar categories in Anne Griffin's The Island of Longing book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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7. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Sweeney's Breakdown book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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8. Somebody Knows

By: Michelle McDonagh

4.16

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

: A gripping, addictive page-turner about dangerous secrets and the lengths people will go to keep … read more

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  • irish literature
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9. There's Something I Have to Tell You

By: Michelle McDonagh

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

HOME IS WHERE THE SECRETS ARE BURIED When two bodies are found on Glenbeg Farm, the local commun… read more

Similar categories in Michelle McDonagh's There's Something I Have to Tell You book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

Similar categories in Katriona O'Sullivan's Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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11. The Polite Act of Drowning

By: Charleen Hurtubise

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The luminous debut novel from one of Ireland's finest storytellers 'The Polite Act of Drowning is a… read more

Similar categories in Charleen Hurtubise's The Polite Act of Drowning book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • ireland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Aisling Ever After

By: Emer McLysaght

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Living in the Big Apple feels like a movie, especially when Aisling finds her ex-boyfriend John on … read more

Similar categories in Emer McLysaght's Aisling Ever After book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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13. Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin

By: Katja Oskamp

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Katja Oskamp ist Mitte vierzig, als ihr das Leben fad wird. Das Kind ist aus dem Haus, der Mann ist… read more

Similar categories in Katja Oskamp's Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"One of the women was a blonde from Eastern Europe who wore sweaters interwoven with gold. She had the loveliest uniform out of all of us, a tunic with a cinched waist and diagonally arranged buttons.…"

-Katja Oskamp, Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin

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14. Three Little Birds

By: Sam Blake

3.78

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Two decades of secrets. One shocking discovery... When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial r… read more

Similar categories in Sam Blake's Three Little Birds book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. My Hot Friend

By: Sophie White

4.11

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

Lexi is on top of the world The podcast she co-hosts with her ride-or-die bestie is going stratosp… read more

Similar categories in Sophie White's My Hot Friend book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • comedy
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16. The Trial of Lotta Rae

By: Siobhan MacGowan

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Halloween night, 1906. Lotta Rae is assaulted by a wealthy gentleman and bravely takes him to trial… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan MacGowan's The Trial of Lotta Rae book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Spirit Level

By: Richy Craven

3.94

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Danny Hook is a directionless twenty-something year old fresh out of therapy. Dealing with his disa… read more

Similar categories in Richy Craven's Spirit Level book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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18. Duffy and Son

By: Damien Owens

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid, Duffy … read more

Similar categories in Damien Owens's Duffy and Son book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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19. The Last Days of Joy

By: Anne Tiernan

3.97

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

WHEN HER SECRET COMES TO THE SURFACE, CAN HER FAMILY SURVIVE IT? The tender, immersive and beaut… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
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20. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's Heart, Be at Peace book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Frankie

By: Graham Norton

4.53

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories… read more

Similar categories in Graham Norton's Frankie book and Damien Owens's Duffy and Son

  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary

18 Best fiction books like Duffy and Son by Damien Owens

Transform Your Habits

Water

John Boyne

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Earth

John Boyne

4.34

Transform Your Habits

How to Build a Boat

Elaine Feeney

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Island of Longing

Anne Griffin

4.15

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15 best-selling fiction books like The Last Days of Joy by Anne Tiernan

Transform Your Habits

Water

John Boyne

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Earth

John Boyne

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Island of Longing

Anne Griffin

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Breakdown

Cathy Sweeney

3.81

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