Book description
- he hadn't forgotten i was there - he just didn't care whether i
was there or not - it would've been better him forgetting rather than
not caring at all Gerry and Iggy face the ends of their lives in a
London hostel. As they drift from present concerns - the funeral of an
old drinking partner, the relative sizes of their swollen livers, tube
routes, street names, God and the lure of Belfast - to remembering
ghosts from long ago, we catch a poignant glimpse of what might have
been. Owen McCafferty's The Absence of Women, heartrending and darkly
comic in turn, premiered at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, in February 2010.
