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This book is so many (good) things at once. Three things I liked without spoilers:
1. The way it pictured the solidarity of women (defying curfew) and the beginnings of the women's lib movement in Northern Ireland in the Seventies.
2. The depiction of the struggles to be a working class cultural renegade (the narrator)
3. The contrast between the nearness of violent death and the vitality of children's curiosity and inventive play.
This is surely the best novel on The Troubles? ...more
1. The way it pictured the solidarity of women (defying curfew) and the beginnings of the women's lib movement in Northern Ireland in the Seventies.
2. The depiction of the struggles to be a working class cultural renegade (the narrator)
3. The contrast between the nearness of violent death and the vitality of children's curiosity and inventive play.
This is surely the best novel on The Troubles? ...more
