A young writer is fictionalising the lives of Dollys guests. Will it get him loved or killed - or both?
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Author
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Eamon Somers |
Availability
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Available |
GBPPrice
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9.9900 |
Dolly Considine runs a late-night drinking establishment catering to the needs of thirsty politicians and theatricals in Dublins legendary drinking area, the Catacombs.\r\n\r\nJulian Ryder (aka Paddy Butler) is an eighteen-year-old aspiring writer in need of shelter from his bullying older brother.\r\n\r\nAs the new live-in lounge assistant at Dolly Considines Hotel, Julian soon embroils himself in the shebeens gossip - and the guests bedsheets - and turns Dollys entourage into fodder for his literary ambitions. Reality quickly becomes difficult to separate from fantasy...\r\n\r\nSet against the run-up to the Pro-life Constitutional Amendment of September 1983 and moving fluidly between the 1950s of Dollys youth and Julians Summer of Unrequited Love, the hotel becomes a stage for farce and tragedy. Between Julians fictions, Dollys Secrets, and narrow party politics - and featuring a papier-mache figure of Mother Ireland giving birth and clashing sword-wielding dancers - this rich cocktail threatens to blow them, and even Ireland itself, wide apart.