An Irish bestseller in hardback, The Boy in the Moon is the new
novel from the author of Involved, set in London and contemporary
and 1960s rural Ireland. What happens to a marriage when a husband
is responsible for his son's accidental death? Julia, whose young
son Sam died in such circumstances, flees to the West of Ireland in
a kind of madness to stay with her father-in-law Jeremiah, a dour,
secretive old farmer, still living in a rundown farmhouse. Here, in
his silent company, Julia stumbles upon the dark secrets of her
husband's family, and learns, to her greater understanding, how
tragedy is passed on from generation to generation. Strong Irish
setting - a superb evocation of rural life in the 1960s. One of the
few female Irish novelists who doesn't write like Maeve Binchy or
Edna O'Brien. O'Riordan writes as powerfully as Dermot Bolger or
Colm Toibin, but combines this with a wonderful ability to pin down
character and the real mechanisms of human relationships
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