Lazy City by Rachel Connolly

Lazy City by Rachel ConnollyFollowing the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, an au pair job provides a partial refuge from her grief and her volatile relationship with her mother. Erin spends late nights at the bar where her childhood friend Declan works. There Erin meets an American academic who is also looking to get lost. Parallel to this she reconnects with an old flame, Mikey. This brings its own web of complications. With a

they realigned their political allegiances

but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family's past

Without your permission

the story Ishmael tells is above all an education:in the practice of whaling

or was torn

With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd

a thrill to read

To accompany these exquisite photographs

on the banks of a silvery lake

The impact of the Phoenix Park murders was so cataclysmic that it destroyed the pact

providing a wonderful opportunity to revisit those much-loved lines remembered from earlier days

When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon