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The Fisher Child Hardcover – 9 Nov. 2001

by Philip Casey (Author)

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Book 3 of 3 in the Bann River Trilogy Series

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A very touching and, at times, agonising, exploration of the constantly shifting nature of love, and the threads of the past that exist in every family Growing up in Irish families in London, Dan and Kate first met unenthusiastically as children in the 1970s. Now, years later they are on holiday in Italy, married, in love, parents to a boy and girl. And when Kate discovers she is pregnant again, it seems they will be closer than ever. But when Meg is born, their lives are changed utterly. Meg is a black child. Trust is replaced with suspicion and anger. Dan flees to Ireland and to his father, seeking to understand what has happened to his family and to himself. It is clear, however, that his bewilderment has much older roots. We are taken back to 1798 where Dan's ancestor, Hugh Byrne, is fighting on Vinegar Hill in the Rebellion. Troubled by the violence done to his family, and the violence in himself, Hugh goes into exile in the tropics, where he gradually overcomes his prejudice and remorse and begins a family with a young woman, Ama. But tragedy awaits...

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272 pages
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English
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Picador
Publication date

9 Nov. 2001
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13.5 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm
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0330483013
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978-0330483018
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Publisher : Picador; Main Market edition (9 Nov. 2001)
Language : English
Hardcover : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 0330483013
ISBN-13 : 978-0330483018
Dimensions : 13.5 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm

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A seamlessly achieved, questioning work.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 December 2001

This is the story of two adults forced to grow far beyond the boundaries of their own expectations. It is also the story of history, and how the separation of past and present which we casually insist on in day-to-day discourse, is challenged by chance, one-in-a-million events, in this case, the inexplicable birth of a black child to London-based white parents, Kate and Dan. Kate is fascinated by the presence of black figures in Renaissance paintings, and there is even a hint of her attraction to the black husband of a friend. After the birth of their (black) baby girl, Dan's blind rage in the face of the seemingly impossible is one of the central emotional notes in the narrative, and thus begins a journey in which he is compelled to look at his own past and how this past has impinged on his present. Nothing is comfortable. No character in these pages is allowed the easy option. Complacency is the great moral failure that almost overwhelms Dan time and again. Gradually, he explores stories and situations which - one imagines - he would never have envisaged. He learns about his own ancestors' involvement in the 1798 Irish Rebellion, about inexplicable rages and passions equal to his own, and he comes to understand the great, arduous journeys of those forced to flee abroad to America and to Montserrat.
The tectonic overlapping of black and white, of love and what? prejudice? complacency? past and present? continues beyond the novel's closing words. Casey began his writing career as a poet. One senses that the poet in him contributes to a complex and often metaphoric refinement of the problem of confronting what seems alien and 'other'. There are no right-on pronouncments in 'The Fisher Child', no 'correct' views on either race or nationality. Instead, the characters are human and as such they explore what they need within their own terms and within the terms of history.
The novel's final image is startling, enigmatic, beautiful and challenging. Through it, Casey appears to urge a re-examination of that which we assume to be philosophically ordered, and to confront our own dreams just as Dan does: which implies that nothing is separate and that the world has a wild inter-dependance that rises even from the genetic, cellular mine of our own bodies.
A fresh and intriguing book that many writers would love to have written.

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