Review: Funny, touching and thought-provoking.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 30, 2013
This is a fascinating story that spans over thirty years, from 1930s Dublin, Ireland to the swinging sixties in 1963. At the beginning Fionn is on his way back to Dublin after spending the best part of his life in the country. He has the right to be uncomfortable about returning, as he has some bad memories to face there. Times have changed and Fionn is a fish out of water, but when President Kennedy arrives in Dublin, in the June of that year, things start to happen for him in an almost mythical fashion. It is as if Fionn is starting life over, romance, adventure, new ways of thinking all combine to shake him up. I had no inkling of where it would lead and loved the crisp, light, moving way this author writes. Very funny at times and deeply moving.