Ciaran McMenamin was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in 1975. A graduate of the RSAMD, he has worked extensively for the past twenty years as an actor in film, television and theatre. His acclaimed first novel, Skintown, was a WHSmith Fresh Talent pick.
A powerful reflection on complex Irish loyalties, divisions and
identities, a romantic drama, and a page-turning thriller.
*Irish Times*
Ambitious and powerful...superbly drawn...McMenamin's ambitious
novel scores big
*Sunday Times*
[A] violent and tender story where memorable characters battle
love, loyalty and the terrible truths of war
*Daily Mail*
There is a smooth grace to his prose...The tension between the
compulsions of history and circumstance, and personal moral choice,
are played out compellingly
*Irish Independent*
Ciarán McMenamin confirms his exceptional talent with this
admirably powerful and authentic novel about the First World War
and the struggle for Irish independence. Tremendous.
*William Boyd*
This gripping novel shifts between [the] race to the south and a
slow reveal of what happened between the three men on the Western
Front...McMenamin never puts a foot wrong, expertly interweaving
the historical and the imagined, right up to his masterly
denouement
*Hot Press*
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