Bernard MacLaverty, MacLaverty Bernard Cal English · Paperback / Softback

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A haunting story of love and division against the backdrop of the Troubles: an Irish modern classic.

Cal is a Catholic boy on a Protestant estate. His Ulster is a violent world in the grip of fear, a land where tenderness flickers only briefly in the dark. As Cal becomes guiltily entangled with local IRA activities, he also meets Marcella, a librarian - and a Protestant. Cal's choices are devastatingly simple: brood on the past, or try to plan a future with the woman he loves?

'Simple humanity, eloquently caught' New York Times

'McLaverty has a true feeling for tragedy' Anita Brookner

Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break, the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Novel of the Year. He has written versions of his fiction for other media - radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti.