Two solar eclipses. Two missing girls.
Sixteen years ago a little girl was abducted during the darkness of a solar
There are certain things that are best left unsaid.Â
Though tragedy had touched the life of the wealthy Richard Abernethie,
Nessa Crowley's murderer has been protected by silence for ten years.
Until a team of documentary makers decide to
An ambitious & compelling first novel about a key moment in Irish history. November 1917. With tensions in Irel&, war in Europe & revolution in Russia, Victor Lennon returns to his home village after a long exile. Radicalised by his experiences in the Dublin Lockout & Easter Rising, Victor is a hero to many but a danger to some. Those closest to Victor know his true nature: his father, Pius, now drinking himself to death; his oldest friend, Charlie, wounded in the trenches; & the love of his life, Maggie, who he left behind years before. But soon Victor & the fearsome parish priest, Stanislaus Benedict, are on a collision course, with the very souls of the people caught between religion & socialism. Told from the perspectives of these two equally strong-willed characters, After the Lockout is a first novel of tremendous ambition & achievement. At its heart is a conflict emblematic of a recurring faultline in Irish history, & of one more eternal & universal: between hope & experience; between ideals & human weakness.