D.N.L. McLaughlin

He was born to Irish Parents, his Mother's side from Roscommon and his Father's Donegal where he lived the first years of his life, after which he moved with his brothers and sister to Longsight, Manchester. This book that he has written is a conscious attempt to reconnect with the first country he called home, to a time and a place that only exists now in faded photographs and memories. The novel is purely a work of fiction, but the characters and events are drawn from what he remembers from his early childhood, which is why dreams and the nature of memory are central to the story's theme and structure.