PublishedCanongate, December 2016 |
ISBN9781782118466 |
FormatSoftcover, 368 pages |
Dimensions21.4cm × 13.5cm × 2.6cm |
When Mahony returns to Mulderrig, a speck of a place on Ireland's west coast, he brings only his handsome face, a photograph of his long-lost mother and a determination to do battle with the village's lies.
His arrival causes cheeks to flush and arms to fold in disapproval. No one - living or dead - will tell what happened to the teenage mother who abandoned him as a baby, despite Mahony's certainty that more than one of them has answers.
Between Mulderrig's sly priest, its pitiless nurse and the caustic elderly actress throwing herself into her final village play, this beautiful and blackly comic debut novel creates in crystal-clear, musical language an unforgettable world of strange kindnesses, bloody violence and buried secrets.
