Close to home / Michael Magee.

UK : Penguin Books, 2024.

280 pages ; 20 cm

Originally published: UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2023.

Sean's brother Anthony is a hard man. When they were kids their ma did her best to keep him out of trouble but you can't say anything to Anto. Sean was supposed to be different. He was supposed to leave and never come back. But Sean does come back. Arriving home after university, he finds Anthony's drinking is worse than ever. Meanwhile the jobs in Belfast have vanished, Sean's degree isn't worth the paper it's written on and no one will give him the time of day. One night he loses control and assaults a stranger at a party, and everything is tipped into chaos.

Nero Book Awards 2023

9780241996409 (pbk)

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English

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