![]() ![]() ![]() The Mackeys and their neighbours are the most rambunctious characters but the police are a neat foil the wise old superintendent, catfish lower ranks – and the cool investigating officer who is at odds with Mackey. ![]() The focal family is the Mackeys: a tempestuous tribe held together by Ma: fierce and loyal to her alcoholic slob of a husband, and to her four warring children, all grown up, two decades after young Rosie disappeared, all with colourful records of partnership and crime, of loves and lusts, betrayals and such festering hatreds that climax in murder.įamily doesn’t monopolize the action. The author depicts the exotic enclave with the skill of a social anthropologist tempered by the affection of one who has surely been there herself. First her suitcase, then a note, finally herself, and a working class community in a Dublin street called Faithful Place is torn apart. At this point, hag-ridden by his work-load and domestic problems, his lost love reappears. He climbs the social ladder, becomes an undercover cop, marries a lawyer, fathers a daughter to whom he’s devoted, is divorced and becomes obsessed by the possibility that his ex-wife’s boyfriends could be a paedophile. ![]() Two young lovers, Mackey and Rosie, plan to elope Rosie doesn’t show, Mackey, devastated, spends the next 22 years cherishing the dream that eventually find her again. This is a story that hooks the reader from the start. ![]()
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