This book is set in the heartland of Ireland. Its story line
relates the relationship between two men in a love that dares not
speak its name. While that is the story line the theme of conflict
between good and evil, runs through the book. Les Hamilton is a
young protestant man who came to Munchindun to establish a forest.
He meets up with a young unemployed penniless son of a gamekeeper
called Pete Donovan and the two men fall in love. Les transforms
Pete's life and the life of the parish. The relationship between
the two men is bitterly opposed by a nurse Mary Mc Menamin who was
originally the girl friend of Pete. Her hatred of the two men and
her involvement in the paramilitary politics of hate secraranism
and bigotry drive her to commit the murder of Les. Mary is put on
trial for murder and on the testimony of Pete she is sentenced to
life imprisonment for murder. IN retaliation against Pete f or
giving evidence to a British court the I.R.A. sentence him to death
and have him shot. In the wider field the novel is set against a
background of violence and unrest in Ireland in the 1970ties. The
thrust of the novel has to do not only with a conflict of good and
evil between those who do good and those who do evil in a rural
parish but this conflict is seen to run through Irish history where
the good and the rational are wiped out by those who do evil, are
irrational and are sectarian. Michael Gillespie
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