Tom, an American investor on a mission to help the Irish people climb out of the mud, arrives in Dublin to find a country far less needy than he imagined: the economy appears to be in overdrive, and so are the characters, in this hugely entertaining and mordant take on Ireland past and present.
Anne Haverty is one of Ireland’s most highly regarded young writers. She is the author of One Day as a Tiger , winner of the Rooney Prize and shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread First Novel Award, and The Beauty of the Moon , a collection of poetry.