The Black Pool: A Memoir of Forgetting

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Following an obsessive mind trying (and failing) to find relief, The Black Pool is a gripping thrill-ride through violent, chaotic underworlds. Tracing the roots of an illness through the failures of youth and adolescence and finally back to childhood, it's about all the wrong places where addicts look for transcendence - from work, to relationships, to writing, to anger.

The Black Pool shows what happens when everything falls apart. It shows us rock bottom and the start of the journey to recovery from there. It's a memoir shot full of holes and shocking clarities. Towards the end, it achieves something like serenity - something like recovery.

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PRAISE FOR TIM MACGABHANN'S CALL HIM MINE
A Telegraph Thriller of the Year

'A wild ride' IAN RANKIN

'Tough and uncompromising: you'll be glad you read it' LEE CHILD

'Gripping from beginning to end' INDEPENDENT

'Pacy and exciting' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Vivid and lyrical' GUARDIAN

'MacGabhann paints an extraordinarily vivid picture of Mexico, in all its seething, sweltering madness and beauty' IRISH INDEPENDENT

Author Bio

Tim MacGabhann is the author of the novels Call Him Mine and How to Be Nowhere, the long poem Rory Gallagher--Live!--from the Hotel of the Dead and the memoir The Black Pool. A book of poems and a book of short stories are also forthcoming.