Pat Grant's childhood is played out against a bleak Ulster landscape at the height of the Troubles. One by one, his brothers leave home, and he is left with his increasingly eccentric father and helpless mother. Pat's teenage romance with Elaine looks at odds with the violence around them.
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Pat Grant's childhood is played out against a bleak Ulster landscape at the height of the Troubles. One by one, his brothers leave home, and he is left with his increasingly eccentric father and helpless mother. Pat's teenage romance with Elaine looks at odds with the violence around them.
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"A tale of doomed love, set against the backdrop of Ireland's troubles. Brutally pessimistic and agonisingly romantic, Pat Gray's novel recaptures the spirit of a lost Ireland." It follows the fortunes of an English family, stranded in the apparent backwater of Ulster at the end of the Second World War. Bernard, the flawed and eccentric father, who was injured in the war, Eileen his wife, and their three children, all are torn apart as the troubles engulf them.
About the Author
Gray was born in Belfast and studied politics at Leeds University and Birkbeck College, London. He is now senior lecturer in politics at the University of Luton.
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