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Apr 6, 2023 · This is the kind of directionless literary fiction I usually avoid: set in 2013, Close To Home follows Sean, a young working-class man from west Belfast who did an English degree at Liverpool but has now returned to his home city and is searching for work. His republican mother still lives in the shadow of the Troubles, when most of the men she knew were interned by the British state, there ...
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Apr 1, 2023 · Close to Home, as the title suggests, is strongly autobiographical, its protagonist Sean the author’s alter ego. READ MORE Which of the Kinahan cartel leaders is most likely to be caught and ...
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Apr 8, 2023 · Close To Home author Michael Magee (Pic: Kate Donaldson) We present an extract from Close To Home, the debut novel by Michael Magee. After Sean attacks a stranger at a party, and is sentenced to ...
Apr 5, 2023 · Michael Magee’s Close to Home first caught my eye on Twitter, partly thanks to that quietly striking cover, partly lots of people whose opinions I trust impressed by it. Drawing on his own experience, Magee’s debut follows Sean from his squalid Belfast flat the night after a bender has seen him assault a guy at a party he’s gate-crashed through his two hundred-hour-community service ...
Apr 4, 2024 · Close to Home witnesses the aftermath of that night, as Sean attempts to make sense of who he has become, and to reckon with the relationships that have shaped him, for better and worse. Drawing from his own experiences, Michael Magee examines the forces which keep young working class men in harm's way, in a debut novel which shines with intelligence and humanity on every page.
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Close to Home witnesses the aftermath of that night, as Sean attempts to make sense of who he has become, and to reckon with the relationships that have shaped him, for better and worse. Drawing from his own experiences, Michael Magee examines the forces which keep young working class men in harm's way, in a debut novel which shines with intelligence and humanity on every page.
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Apr 4, 2024 · It sounds bleak, but Sean’s voice fizzes with life ― The Times, 'Best Novels of 2023' Michael Magee still manages to confer on even the ugliest of things (poverty, sectarianism, illness and death) a kind of sharp-edged elegance ― The Times, '100 best summer reads for 2024' It's hard to find fault with a debut novel that unfold its storylines and characters with such care, handling themes ...
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