© Galaxia Gutenberg, 2016
Maher's lyrical and funny début novel opens in Dublin in 1984. Jim Finnegan is thirteen years old, the youngest in a family of five sisters. His voice leaps off the page and straight into the reader's heart as he relates the dynamics in his family, the local gossip and the class-consciousness that divides his community. Over the summer, his world expands from boyish interests in breakneck bike rides with his geeky best friend and quietly coveting the local girls from afar to encompass the experience of first love. His honeymoon with the beautiful older Saidhbh Donohue is marred by the intrusions of Father O’Culigeen, a nasty, young parish priest who preys on his altar boys. By the following summer, the young couple are forced to take a clandestine trip to London that has dark and difficult repercussions, forcing Jim to look for the solution to all his problems in some very unusual places.
Little, Brown 2013
Translated into: Czech, Spanish
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