Roddy Doyle

A Star Called Henry

September 22, 1999

In A Star Called Henry, his most enchanting and prodigious novel to date, Roddy Doyle introduces Henry Smart. Born in a small, mean room at the beginning of the twentieth century, precocious Henry transforms himself into a larger-than-life figure. He lives through the evolution of modern Ireland - and eagerly, brilliantly, tells his story.

At once an epic, a love story, and a portrait of Irish history, A Star Called Henry is a grand picaresque novel brimming with comic moments and poignant ones, and told in a voice that is both quintessentially Irish and inimitably Roddy Doyle's.

Roddy Doyle is the author of five previous novels. In 1993, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha won the Booker prize and became an international bestseller. Doyle's most recent novel was the acclaimed The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, which was also a bestseller. Doyle wrote the novel and cowrote the screenplay for The Commitments and has also written two plays, the screenplays for The Snapper and The Van, and the four-part television series Family for the BBC. He lives in Dublin.

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