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A powerful Irish immigrant story, set in the mean streets of Victorian Glasgow. --Professor Willy Maley
An assured, brilliantly paced first novel. This is a story that has all the charm of its always-intriguing hero and builds to a climax that is gripping, powerful and explosive. Cuddihy has a talent for plot and an enviable poise in drawing authentic characters facing the crises of love and death. --The Herald
An assured, brilliantly paced first novel. This is a story that has all the charm of its always-intriguing hero and builds to a climax that is gripping, powerful and explosive. Cuddihy has a talent for plot and an enviable poise in drawing authentic characters facing the crises of love and death. --The Herald
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A fast-paced historical thriller set in Victorian Glasgow, Saints and Sinners brilliantly captures the desperation and poverty riddling the Irish immigrant community of the city's East End. Told through the varying perspectives of the three main characters - a fugitive, a priest and a prostitute: two brothers and the woman they both love - Paul Cuddihy's debut novel depicts the conflicting devotions of Victorian society. Mick Costello, on the run from the British authorities, flees Galway for Glasgow, but is still being hunted. Once across the water Mick catches up with his brother, Thomas, a Catholic priest involved in the murky world of Irish republicanism on the orders of the Church hierarchy. Both brothers fall in love with Kate Riordan - a Donegal girl working as a prostitute. Allegiances are tried and loyalties tested as each character struggles for redemption on the unkind streets of Glasgow. And as the plot thickens, with pledges of faith clashing with the passions of love, the novel's stunning climax will find each character facing a decision that could shatter their lives forever.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
FOR Jason Bourne substitute Mick Costello and replace the present-day teeming thoroughfares of Zurich, Paris and Moscow with the cobbled streets and alleyways of Victorian Glasgow while speeding horse-drawn carts instead of Maseratis are driven by goodies and baddies and you have Saints and Sinners.
Set in the dark and dismal deprivation in the Irish squalor of Glasgow's East End in the 1890s, the story leaks out the background of a personal vendetta that began in the lush rolling green hills of Galway and how a boat trip across the Irish Sea failed to deliver the safe haven sought by the hero on the run from British justice.
What unfolds has all the elements of a contemporary spy novel bulging with conspiracy, romance, espionage and unrequited ardour all intertwined with the hierarchy of the Catholic church trying to settle in a an unforgiving and unwelcoming environment.
Faith and hope abound but charity comes at a cost as the lives of a group of people otherwise unconnected interlock with dramatic and deathly results in a world where, in the best realms of intrigue and deception, the greatest enemy sometimes lurks within.
An all-round gripping tale that tells just one of many stories that unfolded when the Irish Diaspora first lay down its weary unshod foot on Scottish soil and it's well worth reading.
Set in the dark and dismal deprivation in the Irish squalor of Glasgow's East End in the 1890s, the story leaks out the background of a personal vendetta that began in the lush rolling green hills of Galway and how a boat trip across the Irish Sea failed to deliver the safe haven sought by the hero on the run from British justice.
What unfolds has all the elements of a contemporary spy novel bulging with conspiracy, romance, espionage and unrequited ardour all intertwined with the hierarchy of the Catholic church trying to settle in a an unforgiving and unwelcoming environment.
Faith and hope abound but charity comes at a cost as the lives of a group of people otherwise unconnected interlock with dramatic and deathly results in a world where, in the best realms of intrigue and deception, the greatest enemy sometimes lurks within.
An all-round gripping tale that tells just one of many stories that unfolded when the Irish Diaspora first lay down its weary unshod foot on Scottish soil and it's well worth reading.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As an avid fiction reader I know instantly when I've discovered a gripping novel and I knew right away with Saints and Sinners.
I've no concept of how Glasgow would have been back then but I felt like I was actually there, witnessing the goings-on for myself, such was the descriptive talent of the author.
Sometimes when I read I get totally engrossed with the characters and I find myself reading faster to see what happens to them next. This was the case with this book. It was genuinely exciting from start to finish.
It's an old cliche but Saints and Sinners really is a page turner. It's remarkable to think that this is the author Paul Cuddihy's first novel.
I sincerely hope there's a sequel.
I've no concept of how Glasgow would have been back then but I felt like I was actually there, witnessing the goings-on for myself, such was the descriptive talent of the author.
Sometimes when I read I get totally engrossed with the characters and I find myself reading faster to see what happens to them next. This was the case with this book. It was genuinely exciting from start to finish.
It's an old cliche but Saints and Sinners really is a page turner. It's remarkable to think that this is the author Paul Cuddihy's first novel.
I sincerely hope there's a sequel.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An excellent first novel, fast-paced throughout and well worth reading. I frequently found myself looking for an obvious lull to allow for a break, but unable to find one such was the rate at which the narrative rattled along. This was an enjoyable read from beginning to end, with convincing characters, a gritty, realistic setting and a dramatic, unpredictable plot. I can heartily recommend Saints and Sinners and if Paul Cuddihy can match the standard set here in his debut, any follow-ups will be well worth looking out for.
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Bought on the recomendation of Hugh McDonald!
Paul Cuddihy writes excellent football books, Hugh McDonald is the superbly witty chief sports writer in The Herald. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Thomas Mcfeely
Highly Recommended
Stirring stuff from start to finish in Paul Cuddihy's debut novel. Fast-moving and packed with tension, you are immediately drawn into the story of Mick Costello and his flight... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Catch22
Fantastic debut novel
I thoroughly enjoyed this book which I found out, to my surprise, was Paul Cuddihy's debut novel! I was hooked on the storyline right from the start and really struggled to put it... Read more
Published 22 months ago by THG
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