This Human Season

✍ Scribed by Louise Dean

• Publisher: The Novelry
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 289 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

**It 's not personal, he says. But that's a lie in a place where everything is personal, and a matter of life and death too. **

This Human Season is award-winning Man Booker longlisted author Louise Dean's second novel set in Belfast, Ireland, during The Troubles of the late 1970's and early 1980's. It was widely praised by critics internationally and described as 'astonishing' by reviewers from The Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom to BookForum in the United States.

It is November, 1979. Kathleen's son Sean has just been transferred to Belfast's most notorious prison - Long Kesh, recently renamed the Maze. Kathleen knows that he will join the other prisoners on their non-cooperation protest, known as the Blanket. Rumours of a hunger strike are beginning to circulate.

John Dunn has finished twenty years in the British Army. After three tours of Belfast, he's found a girl and a house and a...