This Human Season
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0156035332 / Publisher: Harvest Books, February 2008
Incarcerated within Belfast's notorious Maze prison in the weeks before Christmas in 1979, Sean Moran emerges as a key player in the extreme Blanket protest at the height of Northern Ireland's Troubles, an uprising that is witnessed by new guard John Dunn. By the award-winning author of Becoming Strangers. Reprint.
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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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