Re O LaighleisReviews
Author of Gafa (Irish Edition)
Reviews
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A man’s wife dies and he promptly ponders a pistol in a drawer. A woman who pledges two years of celibacy as a devotion to the Virgin Mary is terrorized by her husband for it. A retiring teacher ponders what she missed by not following her love to Canada years earlier. A boy gives his drunken bully of a father a taste of his own. A ridiculous doctor gets his comeuppance. Two women who had been lovers in college are reunited by the funeral of the husband of one - the riskiest story here.
The stories and their morals aren’t subtle and are often simplistic. The lessons are often telegraphed – or are just left sticking out there in plain sight. Sins are punished. Retribution administered. Morality fiction.