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A tale of love and revenge told in the alternating voices of the two main characters.
Ann Martin has always believed she was born into the wrong family – the only child of Irish nouveau riche parents whose tasteless, name-dropping loudness she hates. To exact revenge for her ‘snobbery’ they manoeuvre her into an abusive marriage with her father’s brutish, wise-cracking business manager, Joey. But at her wedding reception, in February 1972, she is observed by an English journalist, Christopher Hunter, who is lunching at the hotel. He, a turbulent and withdrawn man, blooded in the savage intrigues of the Troubles, instantly falls in love with her. Thereafter, Christopher obsessively pursues his vision of possessing this beautiful and grave girl whom he has only glimpsed one bright winter day, though she does not even know he exists.
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‘A powerful blend of romance and hard political fact.’
Mail on Sunday
‘A compelling tale from a writer fully in control of his craft.’
Daily Mirror
‘Two first-person narratives twisted together into a fat plait of a story. I kept turning the pages.’
Independent
‘Powerfully realized... telling parallels between marital cruelty and sectarian violence.’
The Times
Frank Delaney’s 'tour de force, Desire and Pursuit' is a mystery story of great emotional power, told in rich language and crackling dialogue.
Ann Halpin always believed she was born into the wrong family. The 'nouveau- riche' values of her bookmaker father, Joss, and his name-dropping wife Moya, disturb and embarrass her. For her aloofness and superior air her parents punish her – she is trapped into marriage with her father’s brutish, wise-cracking business manager, Joey, who devastates her. After enduring horrors, she decides upon revenge – and then discovers it is curiously unfulfilling.
Parallel with Ann’s story speaks the voice of an Englishman, Christopher Hunter, Ireland correspondent for a London newspaper. In February 1972 he sees Ann – on her wedding day – and falls violently in love with her. He discovers where she lives and watches her from a distance. When she disappears, he is distraught. Then he stumbles upon a bizarre story about a dead child. As he investigates, it becomes clear to the reader – but not to Christopher – that the solution to this mystery may bring him his heart’s desire and bring Ann the respectability she craves.
DESIRE AND PURSUIT
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- PublisherCharnwood (Large Print)
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0708990886
- ISBN 13 9780708990889
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages384
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