In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement when tension was high in Northern Ireland Colm Toibin walked along the border from Derry to Newry Bad Blood is a stark & evocative account of this journey through fear & hatred & a report on ordinary life & the legacy of history in a bleak & desolate landscape Toibin describes the rituals
- the marches the funerals the demonstrations
- observed by both communities along the border & listens to the stories which haunt both sides With sympathy & insight Bad Blood captures the intimacy of life along one of the most contested strips of land in Western Europe