Bestselling author Donal Ryan announces highly-anticipated new novel

Donal Ryan has announced his next book

The highly-anticipated novel is a story of family, loss, and the making of a man.

The official book synopsis reads:

Jack is just twelve years old when he rushes down the hill after his mother's car on his bike, desperate to reach her before she reaches the lake.

What happens next cannot be undone. Jack's life changes just at the moment he is entering those dizzying years when he will transition from boy to man; when nothing makes sense at the best of times.

Yet Jack is not alone. Enveloped as he is by his extended family - his ferociously loving Nana; Grandad, given to sudden bursts of rage; his earthy uncles Haulie and Theo, who want to show him what it means to be a man, and the irascible JJ, who resents him deeply. Then there is beautiful aunt Rose, whose mere presence ignites every atom in his changing body.

But how can a boy with so many questions, in a family with so many secrets, understand the person he is becoming? Without his mother to ground him on the earth, will he spin off into the stars?

Readers already cannot wait for the release of Donal Ryan's next novel, which will be published by Penguin on August 13th.

One reader said, "Love everything he writes, very excited for this one."

Another said, "Oh, this looks incredible, one of my most anticipated reads of the year."

You can pre-order Where Are The Kings by Donal Ryan here.