Hidden symptoms - Deirdre Madden

For Theresa and her student friends, Belfast can seem an urban nightmare
- a city where violence can erupt at any moment, where secrecy and
bitterness are nursed behind closed doors, and where Theresa's twin
brother, Francis, has been murdered, Deirdre Madden carefully and
movingly reveals the crisis of faith that confronts Theresa when her
devout Catholicism provides no explanation for the tragedy. Hidden Symptoms was originally published in Faber's First Fictions anthology where it was highly praised and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1987.