Himself

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016 When Mahony returns to Mulderrig, a speck of a place on Ireland’s west coast, he brings only a photograph of his long-lost mother and a determination to do battle with the lies of his past. No one in the village – living or dead – will tell Mahony what happened to the teenage mother who abandoned him as a baby. This beautiful and darkly comic debut novel creates an unforgettable world of mystery, bloody violence and buried secrets.