ONE of the literary successes of 2023, Close To Home – the debut novel by Twinbrook writer Michael Magee – was greeted with critical acclaim on its release. Since then it has won the Rooney Prize for Literature, been named the Irish Book of the Year by Waterstones and has been shortlisted for several other awards. Then as the year drew to a close American actress Sarah Jessica Parker named the book among her best reads of 2023.
