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Synopsis
Are you as open-minded, as trusting, as loyal as you think you are?
Like the Renaissance painting which fascinates Kate, The Fisher Child is in three parts. In Part One, Kate is happily married to Dan, both of them second-generation Irish and comfortable in their middle-class north London lives. They have two children, a boy and a girl, with another one on the way.
But when Meg is born, Dan cannot accept her as his child, and retreats to Ireland in bewilderment.
In Wexford, his father and cousins are partaking in the commemoration of the 1798 Rebellion, and he learns about his ancestor Hugh Byrne, a rebel who was forced to flee Ireland.
Dan will never know the true story of Hugh Byrne, which the reader discovers in Part Two, but beneath the shadow of the mountain where his family once lived, his dreams bring him deep into his genetic inheritance, forcing him to question the identity he has always taken for granted.
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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
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- PublishereMaker Editions
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 099304252X
- ISBN 13 9780993042522
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages280
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