![]() ![]() ![]() Kennedy’s debut novel captures the odd ability of war-zone residents to be simultaneously adrenalized by and resigned to their environment. Cushla’s efforts to provide aid and comfort to them after Davy’s father is the victim of a savage partisan attack also lead to unintended, devastating consequences. Davy’s parents (and by unfortunate extension, their children) are almost universally loathed due to their mixed Protestant-Catholic union. Cushla is also drawn into the embattled and miserable family circumstances of spirited Davy, one of her beloved students. An encounter with Michael Agnew, an older, married, Protestant-three strikes in Cushla’s world!-barrister who frequents the bar, leads her to a romantic entanglement with unplanned repercussions. Her days are spent teaching young children in a Catholic school, and her evenings are spent tending to her mother’s alcohol-fueled and increasingly erratic behavior as well as helping out in the family’s pub. ![]() A clandestine affair unfolds with tragic inevitability during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Ĭushla Lavery, in her 20s, lives with her mother on the outskirts of the battlefield that was Belfast in the 1970s. ![]()
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