New Town Soul - Softcover

Shane is Joey's new best friend, with a personality for every occasion and a strange sense of recklessness. Joey longs to get close to Geraldine, but she won't have anything to do with him while Shane is around. Is Geraldine right to suspect that Shane is weaving a net of evil around them? And who is the strange old man who seems to know more about Shane than anyone? What secret will Joey unearth in a derelict house in Blackrock? New Town Soul is a supernatural thriller in a very real world - it is about the freedom of being young and the enslavement of being immortal.

Born in Dublin in 1959, Dermot Bolger's nine novels for adults include The Woman's Daughter, The Journey Home, The Valparaiso Voyage and most recently The Family on Paradise Pier. He is the author of over a dozen stage plays, including The Lament for Arthur Cleary, which received The Samuel Beckett Award. His eight volumes of poetry include External Affairs and he devised and edited the best-selling collaborative novels Finbar's Hotel and Ladies Night at Finbar's Hotel, which were published in a dozen countries. The editor of numerous anthologies, including The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction, he has been Writer Fellow in Trinity College, Dublin and Playwright in Association with the Abbey Theatre.