Saints and sinners
By: Paul Cuddihy
Publisher: Black & White
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845028145; 9781845023010
Subjects: Immigrants; Brothers; Prostitutes; Priests; Fiction; Suspense; Fugitives from justice; Irish fiction; Social conditions; FICTION
Description: A fast-paced historical thriller set in Victorian Glasgow, Saints and Sinners brilliantly captures the desperation and poverty riddling the Irish immigrant community of the city's East End. Told through the varying perspectives of the three main characters? a fugitive, a priest and a prostitute: two brothers and the woman they both love? Paul Cuddihy's debut novel depicts the conflicting devotions of Victorian society. Mick Costello, on the run from the British authorities, flees Galway for Glasgow, but is still being hunted. Once across the water Mick catches up with his brother, Thomas, a.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Guardian Angel; 2 Galway Kiss; 3 What Kate did Next; 4 Doubting Thomas; 5 Pennies from Heaven; 6 Needle in a Haystack; 7 Heart of Darkness; 8 God Works in Mysterious Ways; 9 Across the Water; 10 The Falling Man; 11 Heaven can Wait; 12 Love Me Tender; 13 Secrets and Lies; 14 Dear Diary; 15 One Small Step; 16 Vanishing Act; 17 Suffer in Silence; 18 Sink or Swim; 19 Brothers in Arms; 20 The Quiet Assassin; 21 An Inspector Calls; 22 The Name Game; 23 The Hunter and the Hunted; 24 Murky Waters; 25 Revelations; 26 Powers of Persuasion.; title: 27 Tea and Sympathy28 Heart and Soul; 29 Parting of the Ways; 30 No News is Good News; 31 A Sort of Homecoming; Copyright.