When a young man arrives from Australia to claim his inheritance, he changes a small Irish town for ever.
Joseph Brennan sees Michael Bugler, the returned exile, as a threat. And for Breege, Joseph's younger sister, Bugler is an irresistible stranger to whose charms she must not succumb for fear of betraying her brother.
A love-hate story on many levels, Wild Decembers explores the depth and darkness at the root of all ownership. With a rich and comic cast of characters, this primal story is a complex and daring work, fixed in a time and place, yet imbued with the permanence of myth.
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Joseph Brennan is the stern paterfamilias often to be found in the O'Brien domestic set-up. He is a farmer, who rules his local community from his mountain-top farmstead; his younger sister, Breege, acting as sidekick. When a new-fangled tractor arrives in the midst of this primitive setting, accompanied by its owner, Michael Bugler (now there's a name that speaks volumes for its author's intent), Joseph is threatened and Breege is seduced. "No better than a streetwalker," Joseph berates his sister on discovering her secret passion, before pummelling her with his fists. This is a story of elemental emotions pitted against a mythical backdrop dripping with acutely realised and deeply felt detail. O'Brien must take her place as a novelist who understands the sinister depths that underpin the impulse for possession. --Lilian Pizzichini
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