Intelligent dark novel
Huddleston Road is a dark story, tightly focused and powerfully told, further proof that Toomey is a seriously ambitious writer.
The central character, Vic, from a middle-class Dublin background, lived at home and drifted for a few years after leaving school, before going to university in London, aged 21. He becomes a teacher at a large school where he befriends James, a more experienced Welshman. Through James he meets Lali, a skinny young beauty with coffee skin and jet black hair who takes him home and seduces him. Although London-born Lali has little in common with the quieter, more studious Vic, they fall into a steady relationship.
