in Dublin. She claims to have been kicked out but a phone call reveals that Constance is sick again, and that Rosaleen flew away rather than deal with the reality of the situation. Critical reception Upon release The Green Road received warm praise from the literary press including Belinda McKeon of The Irish Times who praised the novel as "unnervingly knowing prose". Nicholas Lezard of The Guardian positively stated that "the writing at the level of the sentence is so sharp and good. It is not so much that it alerts you to its own brilliance, but that it captures, as lightly and deftly as you could wish, the internal cadences of the person being written about." Accolades and nominations The Green Road was nominated for The 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award. Enright won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award for 2016. References 2015 Irish novels 2015 LGBT-related literary works 2010s LGBT novels Irish LGBT novels Jonathan Cape books Novels about HIV/AIDS Novels by Anne Enright Novels set in Dublin (city) Novels set in New York City Novels with gay themes McClelland & Stewart books W. W. Norton & Company books