No one though - living or dead - will tell what happened to the teenage mother who abandoned him as a baby. Mahony also somehow wakes the dead from their graves, those folk who once lived here, with their foggy memories and hidden stories, floating greyly amongst the unseeing living. When Mahony returns to Mulderrig, a speck of a place on Ireland's west coast, he brings only his handsome face, a photograph of his too-young, long-lost mother, and a determination to do battle with the village's lies. Still a satisfying read however you end it, it was so full of colour I would love to read more about the village of Mulderrig. I also wanted to know if after he saw his dead mother for the first time she remained with him? So if anyone can enlighten me then that would be great. The only thing I would say is that the story sometimes meanders off into red herring territory (I'm not sure why the Roisin relationship happened and it was left open) and the ending was a little rushed, I re-read the final chapters a couple of times but I am still unsure as to who Mahony's father was - especially as Doosey and Mrs Cauley are talking at the end and say 'It wasn't Jack'. I adored the vivid pictures the author painted and the characters - especially Mahony who I fell in love with (along with all the other women in the village).
And it's full of ghosts who we are introduced to, I was worried at first they would be a distraction and merely an unusual device, but they add to the story.
Utterly charming, slightly supernatural and horribly violent the story weaves happily through a quaint Irish village that hides some rather dark secrets. MILD SPOILERS A strange yet brilliantly inventive book that manages to be both modern and fresh and rather old-fashioned all at the same time.
Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in return for an honest review :-) I would not hesitate to recommend this and I am looking forward to Jess Kidss next book! Kidd expertly manages to weave comedy moments alongside intrigue and suspense. I couldnt put this book down - Jess Kidd has created a world where both the living and dead seem full of life and personality. oh and a townful of ghosts which only Mahony can see. Mahonys search for the truth is both hampered and helped by a close knit town filled with quirky yet oh so real characters. The action switches between Mahonys search in the 70s and the events leading up to his abandonment in the 50s.
The story centres on a young man, Mahony, who was left outside a church as a baby, who returns to the town he was born in to discover what happened to his mother. Sounds like it shouldnt really work but in Jess Kidds skilful hands it does! I LOVED this book - a crazy combination of murder mystery, supernatural tale, love story and an insightful funny look into a small Irish town in the 70s.
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