Himself

Jess Kidd
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Blending strange kindnesses, casual violence and buried secrets: an unforgettable debut from a dark new voice in Irish fiction When Mahony returns to Mulderrig, a speck of a place on Ireland’s west coast, he brings only 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 in the village - 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 darkly comic debut novel creates an unforgettable world of mystery, bloody violence and buried secrets.
Genres: FictionMysteryMagical RealismFantasyIrelandHistorical FictionAudiobookIrish LiteratureBook ClubMystery Thriller
384 Pages

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