The Fisher Child - Hardcover

Casey, Philip.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330483013 ISBN 13: 9780330483018

Publisher: Picador, 2001

Synopsis

A very touching and, at times, agonising, exploration of the constantly shifting nature of love, and the threads of the past that exist in every family Growing up in Irish families in London, Dan and Kate first met unenthusiastically as children in the 1970s. Now, years later they are on holiday in Italy, married, in love, parents to a boy and girl. And when Kate discovers she is pregnant again, it seems they will be closer than ever. But when Meg is born, their lives are changed utterly. Meg is a black child. Trust is replaced with suspicion and anger. Dan flees to Ireland and to his father, seeking to understand what has happened to his family and to himself. It is clear, however, that his bewilderment has much older roots. We are taken back to 1798 where Dan's ancestor, Hugh Byrne, is fighting on Vinegar Hill in the Rebellion. Troubled by the violence done to his family, and the violence in himself, Hugh goes into exile in the tropics, where he gradually overcomes his prejudice and remorse and begins a family with a young woman, Ama. But tragedy awaits...

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Review

...this wise, tender novel. -Paul Magrs, TLS From its mesmerizing opening chapters in Florence, through the shocking climax to the close, the complicated inter-family relationships threaded with echoes of the past are woven with exquisite skill. A beautiful, evocative tale of love tested. -Sue Leonard, The Irish Examiner In its own quiet way this novel is unsettling and even shocking as it challenges the reader to step into Dan's shoes: are you as open-minded, as trusting, as loyal as you think you are? -Kirkus The novel's final image is startling, enigmatic, beautiful and challenging. Through it, Casey appears to urge a re-examination of that which we assume to be philosophically ordered, and to confront our own dreams just as Dan does: which implies that nothing is separate and that the world has a wild interdependance that rises even from the genetic, cellular mine of our own bodies. A fresh and intriguing book that many writers would love to have written. - Mary O'Donnell, Amazon Casey, one of the quiet men of Irish writing, is a careful, diligent storyteller, and, as he has shown here, daring. [his]... attempts to describe the emergence of modern Irish society, its myths, its realities and bitter truths, through his Bann River Trilogy, remains brave and honest. -Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times

From the Author

The current synopsis is inaccurate. I would be grateful if a new synopis was extracted from the above Description. Thank you. Philip Casey

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0330483013
• ISBN 13: 9780330483018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272