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TWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR

A FINANCIAL TIMES, TIMES, AND IRISH TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

'A masterpiece' Sunday Times

'Stunning' LIZ NUGENT

'Extraordinary' Irish Times

Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea.

His solitude is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask about a traumatic, decades-old case...

There were no saints in any era, Tom knew, just good men and bad, and sometimes both in the one bottle. Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home, a lean to annexed to a white Victorian Castle in Dalkey overlooking the sea.

TWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR

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'Nobody writes like, nobody takes risks like, nobody pushes the language, and the heart, and the two together, quite like Sebastian Barry does.' ALI SMITH

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