Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

For Ross O'Carroll Kelly readers. Cast would be incomprehensible to anyone else. A good read, but the ending was weak: I don't mind not being told what happened after, but it didn't make sense that this would how the plot worked out.

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly started life in The Sunday Times and currently stars in The Irish Times, he is a fictional wealthy southside Dubliner. It is a satire of a certain aspect of the Celtic Tiger population. Those who speak in “Dortspeak”.

But I’m guessing that means very little to any non-Irish blog readers, so I’ll keep this review short. I’ve only ever read the odd column starring Ross so when my book club picked this one to read I was a bit worried that a whole novel worth of show more Ross and his cronies would be too much.

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