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Description for The First Day
hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138. . Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear, and light wear to dust jacket
Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense love affair, their connection fuelled by their respective passions. When Anna falls pregnant, the affair is revealed. The repercussions are slow to emerge but inescapable, and the fallout is shocking, cruel and violent. More than thirty years later Sam, their son, is in New York, living a steady, guarded life, his childhood and family safely abandoned. But the sins of the fathers are not to be so easily buried; the past ... Read more
Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense love affair, their connection fuelled by their respective passions. When Anna falls pregnant, the affair is revealed. The repercussions are slow to emerge but inescapable, and the fallout is shocking, cruel and violent. More than thirty years later Sam, their son, is in New York, living a steady, guarded life, his childhood and family safely abandoned. But the sins of the fathers are not to be so easily buried; the past ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fleet London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780708898550
SKU
KMO0000261
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Phil Harrison
Phil Harrison's first feature film, The Good Man, was released in 2014. His earlier short, Even Gods, won the short film award at the Belfast, Galway and Cork Film Festivals in 2011, and was shortlisted for the best short script at the 2012 Irish Screenwriting Awards. He lives in Belfast. The First Day is his debut novel.
Reviews for The First Day
Hugely impressive. A finely written tale which is original, compulsive, and at times chilling
Sue Leonard
Irish Examiner
Written with a burning intensity, this is a powerful novel about marriage, passion, anger and guilt.
Fanny Blake
Daily Mail
Filmic in its scope and intensity . . . I hope we're in for more from ... Read more
Sue Leonard
Irish Examiner
Written with a burning intensity, this is a powerful novel about marriage, passion, anger and guilt.
Fanny Blake
Daily Mail
Filmic in its scope and intensity . . . I hope we're in for more from ... Read more