Read an excerpt of 'My Coney Island Baby' below

Read an excerpt from My Coney Island Baby, Billy O'Callaghan's New York-set novel below.

"My new novel takes place on a bitter New York winter’s afternoon and centres around a pair of middle-aged lovers, Michael and Caitlin, an Irishman and a Brooklyn girl, who with once-a-month regularity for the past twenty-five years have been escaping their respective marriages in order to keep illicit dates on Coney Island," says Cork writer Billy O'Callaghan.