It has taken John Boyne fifteen years and twelve novels to write about Ireland. He has now done so in his most powerful book yet.
A History of Loneliness is a courageous , deeply moving account of a nation and a man living through a period of irreversible change.
‘I did not become ashamed of being Irish until I was well into the middle years of my life’, so writes the main character Father Odran Yates.
Why did Father Yates come to be ashamed of Ireland? It’s a story worth reading.