Awards
Star of the Sea has collected many awards and shortlistings:
- A New York Times Notable Book of: 2004
- An Economist Book of the Year: 2004
- Voted as one of 15 Vintage Future Classics: 2005
- A Sunday Times No 1 bestseller in paperback
- May 2004: Nielsen Booktrack best-selling adult fiction paperback of the year: more than 850,000 copies in print
- Runner-up for the Nibbie Best Read Award at the British Book Awards: 2004
- Shortlisted for the Sunday Independent Irish Novel of the Year Award
- Winner of the Prix Madeleine Zepter Award for European Novel of the Year, France
- Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: 2003
- Winner of the Acerbi Foundation Award Prize, Italy: 2003
- One of Le Point's 15 Best Books of the Year: 2003
- Winner of the Prix Millepages Award: 2003
- Hennessy / Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award winner: 2003
- Winner of the 2004 Irish Post Award for Literature
- Voted one the annual 25 Books to Remember 2003 by the New York Public Library service
- 800,000 copies sold in the UK in one year alone
- Featured in May 2009 International Baccalaureate English HL A1 Exam
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