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Audrey Magee’s new novel The Colony takes place in 1979 on a small Irish-speaking island off the west coast of Ireland. An English artist and a French linguist come to the island for the summer. Strangers to one another to begin with, tensions between the two men grow and the locals show little enthusiasm for either of their projects.