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“This is a book about three former IRA operatives, who are under orders to recover bodies that they buried 30 years earlier in Scotland, when they active paramilitaries. They are Tony, Hugh and Karen. Two of them have moved on with their lives. I don’t want to nail my political colours to the mast. But I can tell you that writers from across both sides of the divide in Northern Ireland have saluted this book, because it presents a very human picture of how people can be dragged into a conflict, and how that conflict can follow them throughout their lives.” Read more...
The Best Contemporary Irish Novels
Liz Nugent, Novelist
