Dancing with Minnie the Twig - Mogue Doyle

A coming-of-age novel like no other.

Rural Ireland in the 1960s. If you were a boy, you listened to Radio Luxembourg on the wireless, went to the pictures, went hurling up the fields with your best friend, thought about what the big boys got up to with the girls, in particular, what your brother did with his girlfriend, Minnie. Your Mam ruled the house and you watched out for your father, who would fly into rages and give you a right ringer when you werent expecting it. Most of all, you knew everything about the village where you lived, and everyone there. And Tony did; he was one smart boy -- at least he thought he was until the day he saw his father with Mrs. Rourke and there was an accident that changed everything.