β Scribed by Emer Martin
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
'The Cruelty Men is a tidal wave that drags you like a piece of debris through Irish history from the ice age to gangland Dublin. A bible of fucked up Irishness.' βIrvine Welsh
This novel is a new work from the prize-winning author Emer Martin. Her first novel, Breakfast in Babylon, won Book of the Year 1996 at the prestigious Listowel Writers' Week.
Mary O Conaill, abandoned by her Kerry parents, is resettled in County Meath. This accidental matriarch, 'a great one for the stories', faces the task of raising her younger siblings alone. The feral Padraig is disappeared, immured in 'the big house in Mullingar'. Sean joins the Christian Brothers, Bridget escapes and her brother Seamus inherits the farm. Maeve is sent to serve a family of shopkeepers in the local town; pregnant and unwed, she is placed in a Magdalene Laundry, her twins then forcibly removed and sold on.
This sweeping multi-generational saga from the 1930s...
Ireland
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