Week 3: Prophet Song
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This week's book is the 2023 Booker Prize winner, Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. As Ireland slowly succumbs to a devastating civil war, Eilish refuses to leave. With her husband abducted by Ireland's secret police, she is on her own trying to keep her family together. As everything around her falls apart, she realises that the end of the world is not a grand world-wide finale, it's a localised event that happens over and over all the time.   Article on how power affects the brain, by The British Psychological Society: https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/how-power-affects-brain 
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