Read an extract from Ghosts and Lightning by Trevor Byrne
Happy or unhappy, all families are a mystery. None more than the Cullens. Having escaped their clutches and moved across the water, Denny is just beginning to make a life for himself when a call from his sister brings him back to Dublin, city of his birth. Back to square one.
—Ma’s gone. Jesus Denny, yeh have to come home.
Your sister’s words from the night before like some piralling mantra, her voice slurred by drink and smallsounding, a lifetime away. You hadn’t heard the accent for months.
Dublin.
Home.
You ended the call and still the words were there, dancing, odd and sad and haunted.
—Ma’s gone.
Squabbling siblings, misfit school-friends and life on the estates of West Dublin are trouble enough. But then a ghost starts haunting the family home and Denny’s life starts getting properly complicated. Hilarious, warm and tragic by turns, Ghosts and Lightning is a refreshing tale of one young man doing the right thing when surrounded by all the wrong choices and finding love in the most unlikely places.
‘Very powerful. Often funny, sometimes frightening, always very human. I loved it.’ Roddy Doyle
‘A scorching burst of new talent . . . This is a rough, real slice of punkish Dublin low life, a black comedy, a ghost story and more.’ The Times
Read an extract from Ghosts and Lightning
