Book description
On a midsummer s evening a young Dublin woman, Lucy Dolan, prepares for
a showdown that will help make sense of a heart-breaking and brutal
atrocity that happened thirteen years earlier, changing her life
forever. As she waits for the arrival of the charismatic figure who is
the key to the mystery, she recounts her life story a rich and
extraordinary tale spanning two generations of storytellers and
deal-makers, fortune-tellers and gamblers, businessmen and warlords, and
the people that feared, served and betrayed them. With each twist of
this tumultuous story Lucy revisits her childhood and early adolescence
trying to get her head around the things people do in the name of love
and hate, greed and desire and she pieces together afresh the events
that led to the night that still haunts her. Prize-winning author, Mia
Gallagher, has been writing since the age of eight. She has also acted,
directed, taught drama and creative writing, and worked in prisons, both
as an artists' model and a teacher. She lives in Dublin. HellFire is her
first novel.
