Hand In The Fire - Hardcover

Hamilton, Hugo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1444808257 ISBN 13: 9781444808254

Publisher: Ulverscroft Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Vid Cosic is a Serbian immigrant whose friendship with a young Dublin lawyer, Kevin Concannon, is overshadowed by a violent incident... The * fallout draws Vid into the heart of the Concannon family, working for them as a carpenter and becoming involved in their troubled story. There, he's compelled to investigate the emerging details of a young woman from Connemara, denounced by the church and whose pregnant body was washed up on the Aran Islands many years ago. Was it murder or suicide And what dark impact does this event in the past still have on the Concannon family now

About this title

Review:

'Hugo Hamilton is a major international writer who just happens to have grown up in Ireland. His great subject is innocence. In its strength and grace, his work glows.'
Anne Enright

Praise for The Speckled People:

'This is the most gripping book I've read in ages. And it's beautifully written: what could have been safe memories are made new-lived and real in this fascinating, disturbing and often very funny memoir.'’ Roddy Doyle

'The Speckled People is poetic in its language and construction, lyrical in so many of its descriptions. There is a story full of several different kinds of passion with a real tragedy at its heart. The pain is all there, but so is its antidote.’
Margaret Forster

'Donner und Blitzen! What the Jaysus! A memoir of warmth and wisdom. And at last a good – if flawed – Irish father. A beautiful German mother. And not too much rain. It is tender and profound and, best of all, tells the truth. I loved it.'
Patrick McCabe

'A fine and timely book from an exquisitely gifted writer, this is beautiful, subtle, unflashy, perfectly realised and quite extraordinarily powerful.'
Joseph O'Connor

About the Author:

Hugo Hamilton was born and grew up in Dublin. He is the author of five highly acclaimed novels: 'Surrogate City', 'The Last Shot' and 'The Love Test' (Faber); 'Headbanger' and 'Sad Bastard' (Secker); and one collection of short stories. He has worked as a writer-in-residence at many leading universities, including most recently at Trinity College, Dublin. He has just returned to Ireland from a DAAD scholarship in Berlin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ulverscroft Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1444808257
• ISBN 13: 9781444808254
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392