The narrator of this harrowing and hilarious novel is Wil Carson, a former Protestant ex-thug from Northern Ireland. Wils adolescent hatred of Catholics is inherited from his bigoted father, but his sardonic twist on life as a no-hoper from the Backs...
The War. Northern Ireland. 1972. Mary McCandless is a widow, mother of five, and refugee of the Loyalist pogroms in East Belfast, trying desperately to survive in her new neighbourhood, Donard Flats, West Belfast, where street battles rage daily betw...