num_pages: 384
description: Blending strange kindnesses casual violence and buried secrets: an unforgettable debut from a dark new voice in Irish fictionWhen Mahony returns to Mulderrig a speck of a place on Irelands west coast he brings only a photograph of his long-lost mother and a determination to do battle with the villages lies. His arrival causes cheeks to flush and arms to fold in disapproval. No one in the village - living or dead - will tell what happened to the teenage mother who abandoned him as a baby despite Mahony's certainty that more than one of them has answers. Between Mulderrigs sly priest its pitiless nurse and the caustic elderly actress throwing herself into her final village play this beautiful and darkly comic debut novel creates an unforgettable world of mystery bloody violence and buried secrets.
language: English
title: Himself
publisher: Atria Books