Hawthorn and Child
By (Author) Keith Ridgway
Granta Books
Granta Books
1st July 2013
4th April 2013
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Short-listed for Irish Books Awards 2012 (UK)
Paperback
288
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
205g
Hawthorn and Child are mid-ranking detectives tasked with finding significance in the scattered facts. They appear and disappear in the fragments of this book along with a ghost car, a crime boss, a pick-pocket, a dead racing driver and a pack of wolves. The mysteries are everywhere, but the biggest of all is our mysterious compulsion to solve them.
In Hawthorn and Child, the only certainty is that we've all misunderstood everything.
Keith Ridgway is a Dubliner and the author of the novels The Long Falling, The Parts and Animals, as well as the collection of stories Standard Time and the novella Horses. His books have won awards and acclaim in Ireland and internationally and are translated widely. He lived in North London for eleven years. He now lives somewhere else.