Description
Three lives cross paths within the walls of Grangegorman Mental Hospital in 1941. Three lives equally demolished by different wars, different betrayals, different traumas. In the Ireland of this time, the post-Civil War code of silence between both sides is barely holding the young state together. Francis Dillon, a former IRA Squad member and National Army colonel, is admitted to Grangegorman suffering from paranoia and delusions; Doctor Fairfax, having just fled London after the death of his partner and the secrets that revealed, is keen to help Dillon by getting him to talk in confidence about his past traumas; and Gus, a trusted attendant who sees all and says little, has secrets of his own.
In Hide Away master storyteller Dermot Bolger explores the buried trauma within people, who engaged in violence when young, and the invisible fault-lines in all post-conflict societies only held together by collective amnesia.
Book Information
ISBN 9781848409385
Author Dermot Bolger
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint New Island Books
Publisher New Island Books
Weight(grams) 450g
