EXTRACT: A moment of implosion
Irish writer Dermot Bolger’s new novel Tanglewood exhumes the moment when the Celtic Tiger quietly began to implode. On the surface, it’s the story of two Dublin couples who embark on a building project that impinges on both their homes, but the true
The hardest thing in her childhood was the knowledge that she could do nothing right in her father’s eyes.
Alice knew that his detachment stemmed from the emotional impoverishment of his own upbringing. Based on the few references he’d ever made to his childhood, Alice sensed that her father had rarely heard an expression of affection or encouragement while growing up ...
