Following the Wake

by Gemma O'Connor

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The fallout from Evangeline Walter's murder touched everyone who knew her, as if her venom had insidiously leached into their lives and poisoned their happiness. Even her cousin, Murray McGraw, who had a genuine affection for her, was not immune, and neither was Smiler O'Dowd, who loved her. But of all those who had contact with her, none suffered more than the wife and son of V. J. Sweeney, who drowned at sea before he could be charged with her killing. Was it all too neat? Ten years on, show more the sense of unfinished business continues to linger, and Gil Sweeney has become obsessed with finding out what really happened when he was a little boy of eight . . . -The fallout from Evangeline Walter's murder touched everyone who knew her, as if her venom had insidiously leeched into their lives and poisoned their happiness. Even her cousin, Murray McGraw, who had a genuine affection for her, was not immune; and neither was Smiler O'Dowd, who loved her. But of all those who had contact with her, none suffered more than the wife and son of VJ Sweeney, who drowned at sea before he could be charged with her killing. Was it all too neat?Ten years on, the sense of unfinished business continues to l show less

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Jag vet inget om författaren Gemma O'Connor, mer än att hon är irländska bosatt i Oxford i England. "Following the Wake" utspelar sig också på dessa platser, om än fokus ligger på en liten ö någonstans i södra Irland.
O'Connor har valt att skildra vad hon tror kan hända inom en familj om en traumatisk upplevelse för en åttaåring förtigs, och han tio år senare börjar minnas. Processen när pojken/den unge mannen börjar minnnas är spännande att följa och skildrad ganska rafinerat. Men beskrivningarna avrelationerna mellan föräldrarna nu, och deras relationer till sina barn och till vänner som var med då, redan för tio år sedan, är mycket ordrik och - i mitt tycke - tråkig. Det känns som man deltar i skvaller show more om någon man vet har det svårt. Mer intressant än så blir det inte.

Så det är lite blandade känslor denna berättelse givit mig.
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Canonical title*
Der irische Inspektor
Original title
Following the Wake
Original publication date
2002
Epigraph*
See him! Whom?... / See him! How?... / See it! What? His innocence. / Look! Look where? On our offence. / See him filled with love... / / Break in grief, thou loving heart; / For a child whom thou didst nourish, / Yea, a frie... (show all)nd whom thou didst cherish, / Gathers wicked foes around thee / And doth lika a serpent around thee. - Chosrus 1 Aria 12; from J.S. Bach: "St Matthew Passion"
Dedication*
For Pauline
First words*
Irish Daily News, Thursday 12 September
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Mr. Recaldo is the popular crime writer Frank Ventry.
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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
813.6Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English2000-
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PR6065 .C557 .F65Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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