© Editions J. Losfeld, 2016
When two neighbouring Dublin couples decide to build a townhouse that straddle both of their gardens, they have no idea that the journey they embark on will expose the faultlines within their relationships and result in a panicked decision one night, which cast the two previously law-abiding husbands adrift into unknown territory, propelled into a new moral landscape where it seems impossible to turn back.
Tanglewood is an incisive dissection of the Celtic Tiger edifice quietly imploding: a bitter-sweet examination of the simmering tensions, intolerable strains and unbreakable bonds of memory and love that can simultaneously exist within marriage.
The Irish Times called it “A rare thing in Irish fiction: a serious state-of-the-nation novel, a truly important book by one of our most mature and courageous writers, Tanglewood is an outstanding piece of work by one of our most mature and courageous writers, one who is unafraid to hack his way through the tangles of contemporary Irish life and write a rare thing in Irish fiction: a serious state-of-the-nation novel. Entertaining, not at all self-important, this is a truly important book.”
New Island Books 2015
Translated into: French, Bulgarian
Aisling Glynn
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