Book review: Ithaca

It’s 2009, summer, and Ireland stands on the brink of catastrophic recession, or, as the very unreliable narrator of Ithaca puts it: it was ‘the summer after all the money disappeared’.

Sat, 03 Jun, 2017 - 01:00

Review: Des Breen

Alan McMonagle

Picador, €14.99

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