Edna O’Brien once said that writing is the process of lying in wait for yourself, and that was the case with this book. I’ve spent many years in London and love the city, but I’ve learned to be patient. I had always wanted to write about the Irish in England and had over the years gathered lots of bits and pieces of story, but none of it really gelled. Where does the story of the Fogartys come from?įrom many different places. It is a novel that overflows with energy, and is crammed with unforgettable characters, all of it narrated from within the troubled – and troubling – mind of Dan Fogarty. The action switches between the psychedelic excesses of a squat in Kilburn in the early 1970s and a contemporary care home in Margate, where Una’s mind is beginning to unravel.
The Irish novelist, twice Booker shortlisted for The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto, returns with the story of Dan and Una Fogarty, the children of a family who have been forced to emigrate to England from rural Ireland in the 1950s.
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