A haunting love story set against the grim backdrop of fear and violence in Northern Ireland.
Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break, the Bord Gais Energy Irish Novel of the Year. He has written versions of his fiction for other media - radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti.
Simple humanity, eloquently caught....Though Cal is a bleak novel,
there is a flicker of lyricism running through it, like the sun
shining through the shattered windows of a ruined church
*New York Times*
To fashion a short, telling novel out of the hideous complexities
of Northern Ireland takes narrative skill of a high order. In Cal
Bernard MacLaverty has managed to do it superbly
*Nina Bawden*
It performs the remarkable feat of compressing into its short span
both a doomed love affair and an account of the impossibility of
living, in the circumstances of that doomed province, without
redemption and without punishment… MacLaverty has a true feeling
for tragedy’
*Anita Brookner*
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