HellFire: A Novel - Softcover

Gallagher, Mia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184488080X ISBN 13: 9781844880805

Publisher: Penguin, 2007

Synopsis

On a midsummer’s evening a young Dublin woman, Lucy Dolan, prepares for a showdown that will help make sense of a heart-breaking and brutal atrocity that happened thirteen years earlier, changing her life forever. As she waits for the arrival of the charismatic figure who is the key to the mystery, she recounts her life story – a rich and extraordinary tale spanning two generations of storytellers and deal-makers, fortune-tellers and gamblers, businessmen and warlords, and the people that feared, served and betrayed them. With each twist of this tumultuous story Lucy revisits her childhood and early adolescence – trying to get her head around the things people do in the name of love and hate, greed and desire – and she pieces together afresh the events that led to the night that still haunts her.

About this title

Review:

Like a compassionate, uncynical London Fields ... filled with insight and
buzzing with life -- Metro

Brilliant -- Sunday Independent

Gallagher has a fine gift for storytelling, backed up by rolling,
rollicking dialogue worthy of Angela Carter ... an engrossing read -- IMAGE MAGAZINE

Powerfully told -- Financial Times

About the Author:

Prize-winning author, Mia Gallagher, has been writing since the age of eight. She has also acted, directed, taught drama and creative writing, and worked in prisons, both as an artists' model and a teacher. She lives in Dublin. HellFire is her first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 184488080X
• ISBN 13: 9781844880805
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672