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"Stories of rural Ireland in the classic mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic"-- Provided by publisher.
Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in WWII was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he's writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one...
"Not always straightforward or easy but it is an unforgettable masterpiece."
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Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a...