The Lock-Keepers Wife Biography describes in a first-person narrative

describes in a first-person narrative his childhood up to the early years of his career as a journalist and his departure from University College Dublin in the late 1960s

In the past fifteen years

Kevin Smith’s prose is by turns hilarious and incisive

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The story is told through a cache of letters discovered on Hubert Butler's death between he and his friend 'Old Joe'

The Lock-Keepers Wife Biography describes in a first-person narrativeA Top 10 Fiction Best Seller "A masterpiece" Irish Independent "A gorgeous and very serious piece of writing A yarn of yearning" The Oliver Callan Show Julie McDermot has just been released from The Mental, the psychiatric institution where her husband committed her after the devastating loss of their two infant children. Returning to her narrow, lonely life along the canal, Julie is haunted by grief and the aching absence of what might have been. As