Description
Twin brothers Michael and Kieran are visiting their grandparents in County Cork. It's 1982 and the summer is oppressive, the community tense and the family chaotic in a way that only outsiders find enchanting. At sixteen the boys are on the brink of life - but the entanglements of the holiday are to cloud their future in ways they can't imagine. Returning to their ramshackle Cheltenham home, the brothers don't know whether to call themselves English or Irish. Years later, the fiery young woman unannounced on Michael's doorstep doesn't know which of them to call her father . . .
'An intricate exploration of identity and morality . . . A highly visual novel, it's a thoroughly engrossing read' Sunday Post
'Moves with a dreamy seamlessness . . . in its own wry way it offers a persuasively damning assessment of the foolishness of cultural conflict in modern Britain. A mature, articulate novel' Metro
'Deftly told' TLS
About the Author
Joe Treasure was born in Cheltenham and studied English at Oxford. He haslived in California and in Wales, and is a graduate of Royal Holloway's Creative Writing MA. His first novel, The Male Gaze, was published by Piador in 2007.
Book Information
ISBN 9780330448987
Author Joe Treasure
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 227g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm * 17mm
