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Are you as open-minded, as trusting, as loyal as you think you are? Like the Renaissance painting which fascinates Kate, The Fisher Child is in three parts. In Part One, Kate is happily married to Dan, both of them second-generation Irish and comfortable in their middle-class north London lives. They have two children, a boy and a girl, with another one on the way. But when Meg is born, Dan cannot accept her as his child, and retreats...

Ooh, Coupla!' she squealed, laughing at them. She often used words from her other language, and 'Coupla' sounded like cúpla, her word for twins. The twins were only four at the time. 'The two of you are rogues, so you are!' Kate and Dan are twins. When they were three, their mother Ana walked into the sea. Cormac, their dad, and Mrs Janey who looked after them while he was away, both tried their best to comfort them, but they still missed her...

A series of meditations on love and pain, Tried and Sentenced draws on acclaimed collections from Raven Press and New Island Books. On The Year of the Knife "Things that please me in poetry are precision, compassion and images that surpass the common run of language, also that the poet must have an ear for language as a musician has an ear for music. The work of Philip Casey, especially The Year of the Knife, possesses all of these in abund...

Sometimes all that can heal grief is the right story. In late 1980s Dublin, Tess meets Mungo, who, like herself, is ridden with guilt - she because she is forced to leave her son with her hated husband, he because his son is scarred after a fire caused by his carelessness. They are too hurt to reveal their real selves to each other, but Tess hits on inventing a fantastic life in Berlin, and he picks up on it, inventing an equally fantastic...

Everyone I love is here, ' Brendan says. 'So what do you do? You might love a piece of rock, but it won't love you back.' Exiled in post World War II London, Brendan and his son Hugh are among the thousands of Irish and other immigrants rebuilding the ruins. A cultured Irish woman, Sara, has taught them to read, and is their only friend until Hugh breaks away from his tyrannical father and meets Elizabeth, a Londoner who lives with her German ...

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