Enright - Tapa blanda

Praise for Enright 'there is much to admire in Mark O'Sullivan's novel, especially the vivid sense he gives us of that turburlent time' Paul Whitington, Irish Independent, September 2005 Praise for Mark O'Sullivan's writing 'impeccable mastery of narrative and dialogue' Sunday Tribune 'a challenging and original author' Books Ireland 'the truths and lies of life rarely meet with such provoking starkness'

It is 1921, and the Irish War of Independence is drawing to a close. In a small Tipperary town, RIC Sergeant, Tom Enright fights the rebels - and his own demons. Traumatised at an early age, Enright is destined to constantly re-enact the roles of hunter and hunted. In closely interwoven storylines, he relives his years at sea, the battles at the Somme, lying among the living dead in a British Columbian sanatorium and subsisting on a Canadian Army Land Grant farm before moving back to Ireland. Mark O'Sullivan's gripping novel is as forceful as the character of Enright himself. The story hovers between the real and the imagined, between tenderness and violence, between myth and memory. Enright's voice haunts, revolts, sometimes amuses, and ultimately reveals the secret of survival - defiant tenacity.