Author Louise Dean takes up an audacious challenge in this 2005 novel: using two rotating narrators, one the mother of an imprisoned son in the Maze and the other as a prison guard there, to see The Troubles from either side of the struggle.
“Just follow.” He took off, pushing the larger ferns from his face. There were two paths to choose from, both…
“In journalism, immediacy is a valuable commodity. The journalist doesn’t want facts to become clouded by reflection. But literary…
“From the day Jane walked out our front door — taking everything of value she could stuff in her car,…
