Books by Kevin Casey

In mid-1970s rural Wicklow, John Hughes, a once-feted journalist/author with writer's block, reflects on recent events. When English author William Cromer and his German lover Ingrid move to the Old Rectory nearby, their lives are transformed and an alcohol-fuelled affair begins.

Atmospheric and finely written, this expose of a shotgun wedding and subsequent marriage is a jewel of narration, and a reissue that is long overdue.