For Cal, some of the choices are devastatingly simple... He can work in the abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a futer with Marcella, Cal's love for Marcella quickly becomes an obsession. She is his chance to forget his quilt and to make up for the crime he has been forced into in the name of sectarian politics. Springing out of the fear and violence of Ulster, Bernard MacLaerty's bitter love story is a superbly written and haunting description of a land where tenderness and innocence only flicker briefly in the dark.

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