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Maurice Leitch The Eggman's Apprentice ISBN 13: 9780436404030

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Orphaned at a cruelly young age by the death of both parents, diminutive Hugo Dinsmore goes to live with brutish country relatives. It is there that he is drawn into the entourage of the Eggman, a local gangster, before breaking free in his own spectacular but hazardous fashion.

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"Ireland's best living novelist." -Eamonn Sweeney --Eamonn Sweeney
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A novel of standing out and fitting in
'Maurice Leitch is perhaps the finest Irish novelist of his generation' Robert McLiam Wilson

‘Ireland’s best living novelist’ Eamonn Sweeney

Orphaned at a cruelly young age, little Hugo Dinsmore is torn from his pampered life and plunged into the nightmare world of brutish country relatives, a world where his refined ways and small stature are a constant source of mockery and torment. Survival means learning to be sly, and Hugo soon finds his talents for retribution and petty thieving.

His pure singing voice soon brings him to the attention of the Eggman, a much-feared local gangster who gets Hugo to perform for him and his cronies at their late-night poker sessions. Hugo becomes a well-dressed mascot, travelling with the Eggman and his enforcers in the back of a pink Cadillac. Gradually he breaks away from his old, wretched life, but as the Eggman’s grip tightens and a criminal price must be paid for all the fine clothes, Hugo decides to make a spectacular and hazardous break for freedom.

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‘The Guardian Fiction Prize winner and Whitbread Award-winning author has certainly excelled himself here’ Irish Times

‘A novel whose desolate moral landscape and haunting descriptive power are reminiscent of Greene and Faulkner’ Sunday Times

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