- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; New edition edition (2 Mar 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006550401
- ISBN-13: 978-0006550402
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 421,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Father’s Music pulses to the rhythm of a taut romantic thriller. It is the work of a master craftsman, with intricate plotting and the interweaving of characters’
lives casting a hypnotic spell’
Jack Hanna, Irish Times
‘Dermot Bolger creates a Dublin, a particular world, like no one else writing can… It is the urban landscape of the thriller that Bolger has made exclusively his own.’
Anne Haverty, Sunday Independent
‘A masterly psychological thriller’
Sunday Telegraph
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From one of Ireland’s bestselling writers, a literary thriller set in London and Dublin.
A combination of family fable and gripping thriller, ‘Father’s Music’ tells the story of Tracey, the troubled twenty-two-year-old daughter of an Englishwoman and a wandering musician from Donegal. She knows very little about her father, who returned to Ireland before Tracey was born, but when she is taken to Ireland by her lover, a Dublin businessman with underworld connections, Tracey at last feels she is coming home – to her father’s land.
Caught up in Dublin low-life, tormented by memories of her dead mother and eager to follow up news of her father, Tracey finds her journey home to be a dangerous and extraordinary one…
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Dermot Bolger's chief Irish literary contemporaries are Patrick McCabe and Roddy Doyle, and between the three of them there are enough superb novels to keep any reader happy for quite some time.
Father's Music concerns a troubled young English woman named Tracey Evans, who meets a mysterious but charming Irishman, Luke, and quickly uncovers a world of deceit and violent crime. Tracey, needy as she is, blinds herself to the fact that Luke's criminal past is not really in the past, and as events unfold, tragedy looms up out of the mist and strikes at the heart of Tracey's `new life'.
A novel about Irish life and about the innate human need for love and physical affection; Father's Music is a disturbing but powerful and important novel.
Father's Music concerns a troubled young English woman named Tracey Evans, who meets a mysterious but charming Irishman, Luke, and quickly uncovers a world of deceit and violent crime. Tracey, needy as she is, blinds herself to the fact that Luke's criminal past is not really in the past, and as events unfold, tragedy looms up out of the mist and strikes at the heart of Tracey's `new life'.
A novel about Irish life and about the innate human need for love and physical affection; Father's Music is a disturbing but powerful and important novel.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I can't believe that nobody has reviewed this book yet!! To say that this is one of the finest novels to be written in the 90's would be an understatement. I couldn't put this book down when I started to read it and recommend to anybody who enjoys good fiction. The plot has plenty of twists, the writing is wonderfully emotive and I almost cried in places. This is adult fiction at its finest-warm, gritty, heart-warming and shocking. Buy this book and enhance your life!
5 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book must be read a.s.a.p. by anyone who loves what? God, the plot is masterfully crafted, the characters are revealed through a series of some of the most skilful handlings of time I've ever read, it's all credible and yes, as Declan says, it'll bring tears.
WOW!
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