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Cassidy's début novel explores how identities are formed through the stories we tell of ourselves - and how these stories can unravel when confronted with confliciting narratives of our past. JP Whelan's story in the present is one of success, stability, and happiness, with a successful career in the City of London, a beautiful girlfriend by his side and their first child about to be born. Yet on the eve of his daughter's birth, a visitor turns up on his doorstep and brings with him the repressed baggage of a Dublin childhood, a dysfunctional family, and a time when he was John Paul. As the various narratives of his life start to unravel, JP's memory and reliability as a narrator become increasingly doubtful.
Hachette Books Ireland 2010
Translated into: French
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