![]() ![]() ![]() How a young and overweight Una finds herself living in a hippie squat in Kilburn in the early 1970s. How Dots, the mother, becomes a call girl in 1950s Soho. How the parents are exiled from a small Irish village and end up living the hard immigrant life in England. ![]() From Dan's anarchic account, we gradually piece together the story of the Fogarty family. McCabe is truly original' Elaine Feeney Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate. The characters are electric, the narrative fuelled with a brilliant frenetic energy. profoundly affecting' David Keenan 'A blistering, brilliant ballad of mad tales from rural Ireland to London Town. a stunningly lyrical novel' Alex Preston, Observer 'Pitched - deliriously - between high modernism and folk magic, between gorgeous free-verse and hilarious Irish vernacular, Poguemahone is a stunning achievement. 'If you're looking for this century's Ulysses, look no further. ![]()
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