num_pages: 377
description: Fred Scully has decided to leave Australia to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. He labours alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, but when he arrives at the airport to pick up his wife and child, only his small daughter steps off the plane. So begins Scully's desperate odyssey across Europe, trying to track down the wife he comes to realize he didn't know. 'A brilliant reflection on the instability of personality and memory, written in page-turning style' Daily Telegraph 'An intricate, magnificently readable novel' Sunday Telegraph 'Makes the senses jump. Concentrated, passionate, invigorating' Independent
language: English
title: The Riders
titlecomplete: The Riders
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Book Club, Ireland, Contemporary, Greece, Literary Fiction, Literature, Australia, Novels
ratings_count: 6708
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in South East Asia and Pacific
publisher: Picador