When the going gets tough, the tough get sewing…
At twenty-nine, Connie isn’t exactly living her dreams. When her
It is 1943, & three very different girls are longing to do their bit for the war effort.
Frances is stifled by
' At 2.20am in the morning of the 13th November 1952 the body of 19 year old Patricia Curran was carried into the surgery belonging to the family doctor. At first Dr Kenneth Wilson thought she had been the victim of an accidental shooting. In fact a subsequent post-mortem revealed that she had been stabbed thirty seven times.' Eoin Mc Namee's wonderful novel, which is based on one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in recent history, is at once a gripping thriller & a danse macabre through a shadowy world of corruption & sexual intrigue
- a darkly lyric narrative of white mischief in post-war Irel&, of false accusation & savage murder, presided over by the haunted, tragic figure of Patricia Curran.