The Fields
A brilliantly funny, moving read for fans of 'Derry Girls'
$24.68
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2014
Summary
We’d never seen anything like that around our place before. Not right in front of our eyes. You always heard about it, though. Through friends of friends. Or when The Mothers got together for coffee mornings. They’d sit around in a steamy kitchen circle like four mad witches, and dip ginger-snaps into Maxwell House until they went wobbly-warm, and take turns at saying, Jahear about so-and-so, Lord rest his soul, only thirty years old, poor creature ! They were brilliant at it. Scaring the shi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349138671 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349138672 |
| Author: | Kevin Maher |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 159mm x 31mm |
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The Fields is a powerful comic debut
The Fields introduces Jim Finnegan, the youngest in his family with five raucous sisters. It has all the energy and fun of Roddy Doyle’s early novels…but then Jim meets the local beauty, Saidhbh, and things take a turn for the modern - Independent on Sunday’s Pick of 2013
Dublin in the 1980s - our hero Jim Finnegan, youngest in a family with five sisters, has his life changed by love and the challenges he faces at the hands of ‘Father’. Funny, inventive debut. - The Times Culture picks for 2013About The Author
Kevin Maher
Kevin Maher was born and brought up in Dublin, moving to London in 1994 to begin a career in journalism. He wrote for the Guardian, the Observer and Time Out and was film editor of the Face until 2002, before joining The Times where for the last eight years he has been a feature writer, critic and columnist.
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