Book description
Henry Stanfield, the newly arrived Truth Commissioner, is troubled
by his estrangement from his daughter, and struggling with the
consequences of his infidelities. Francis Gilroy, veteran Republican
and recently appointed government minister, risks losing what feels
tantalisingly close to his grasp. In America, Danny and his partner
plan for the arrival of their first child, happily oblivious to what
is about to pull him back to Belfast and rupture the life they have
started together. Retired detective James Fenton, on his way to an
orphanage in Romania with a van full of supplies, will soon be forced
to confront what he has come to think of as his betrayal, years
before, of a teenage boy. In a society trying to heal the scars of the
past with the salve of truth and reconciliation, these four men's
lives become linked in a way they could never have imagined.
â  With guile and wonderful imaginative sympathy, Park stays
afloat on the most treacherous of thematic currents ...We're reminded
that with writers like David Park, the novel can itself be a kind of
truth commission'
David Park has written six books, most recently
the hugely acclaimed Swallowing the Sun. He was the winner of
the Authors Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for
Literature and a twice winner of the University of Ulster s McCrea
Literary Award. In June 2008 he was awarded the American Ireland Fund
Literary Award for his contribution to Irish literature.
He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland with his wife and two
children.
