The book follows the hoofdpersonage Eilish Stack, a mother who has the hair family seeds tested the house in a totalitarian comparison in Ireland. Lynch used in the verhaal geen paragraphs of aanhalingstekens.
The Booker Prize gives Lynch a prize of 50,000 pounds (about 57,600 euros) op. All of the authors on the shortlist are also worth 2,500 pounds (about 2,900 euros) and a unique, hand-bound version of the book.