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In the weeks before Christmas, a mother will lose a son and a father will gain one. In this desperate season, two families will need to find a way to survive when the world around them is falling apart.
Kathleen's eldest daughter has moved to England, and her eldest son has just been sent to gaol. Her youngest two children look set to follow their siblings' example. John Dunn has started work as a prison guard. He has just received a letter that he can't tell his girlfriend about. And beyond these human troubles both Kathleen and John are living through the inhuman Troubles - it is December 1979, in Belfast.
'Remarkable. That an English woman born after the Troubles began should take one of its most grisly episodes - the "dirty protests" in the Maze prison - as the focus of a compelling family drama is ambitious to say the least. That she should pull it off with such compassion and perceptive detail is nothing short of astonishing' Telegraph
'Dean is an audacious arrival in British fiction. She is unafraid to tackle unsexy or unsafe material, or to stray beyond the domestic sphere. With the difficult second novel, so often a disappointment, she has significantly upped the stakes and succeeded. Where This Human Season could easily have been earnest or preachy it is funny and humane. … This, above all, is a story of two parents trying to do the best for their sons and daughters in a hostile world, in which they themselves feel as helpless as children.' Lisa Allardice, Guardian
'A real page-turner. Masterly' David Robson, Sunday Telegraph
'Utterly compelling….a compassionate tale of belief and survival' Eve
'Dean is brave enough to offer the reader a glimpse of a real hope, held hopelessly between funeral and tragedy. Ranging across this desperate landscape is a novel which captures a community's resilience and its humour full of broken glass. Louise Dean describes the exact glint of this spirit' Ali Smith, TLS
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Kathleen's eldest daughter has moved to England, and her eldest son has just been sent to gaol. Her youngest two children look set to follow their siblings' example. John Dunn has started work as a prison guard. He has just received a letter that he can't tell his girlfriend about. And beyond these human troubles both Kathleen and John are living through the inhuman Troubles - it is December 1979, in Belfast.
'Remarkable. That an English woman born after the Troubles began should take one of its most grisly episodes - the "dirty protests" in the Maze prison - as the focus of a compelling family drama is ambitious to say the least. That she should pull it off with such compassion and perceptive detail is nothing short of astonishing' Telegraph
'Dean is an audacious arrival in British fiction. She is unafraid to tackle unsexy or unsafe material, or to stray beyond the domestic sphere. With the difficult second novel, so often a disappointment, she has significantly upped the stakes and succeeded. Where This Human Season could easily have been earnest or preachy it is funny and humane. … This, above all, is a story of two parents trying to do the best for their sons and daughters in a hostile world, in which they themselves feel as helpless as children.' Lisa Allardice, Guardian
'A real page-turner. Masterly' David Robson, Sunday Telegraph
'Utterly compelling….a compassionate tale of belief and survival' Eve
'Dean is brave enough to offer the reader a glimpse of a real hope, held hopelessly between funeral and tragedy. Ranging across this desperate landscape is a novel which captures a community's resilience and its humour full of broken glass. Louise Dean describes the exact glint of this spirit' Ali Smith, TLS
November 1979, the height of Northern Ireland?s Troubles. Kathleen Moran?s son Sean has just been transferred to the hypersecure H-block in Belfast?s notorious Maze prison, where he soon emerges as a young but important force in the extreme protest that political prisoners are staging there. John Dunn is also newly arrived at the prison, having taken on the job of guard?a brutal but effective way to support a house and a girlfriend. In the weeks leading up to Christmas, no one?s dreams go untroubled. As rumors of a hunger strike begin to circulate, Louise Dean?s pitch-perfect novel places two parents, two sons, and two enemies on a collision course that ends in a surprising and deeply resonant climax.
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- ÉditeurMariner Books
- Date d'édition2008
- ISBN 10 0156035332
- ISBN 13 9780156035330
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages384
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This Human Season
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