Bad Day in Blackrock

**Inspiration for the 2012 award-winning filmWhat Richard Did from the author of White City, available for pre-order now**An excellent novel... It comes from the gut, its raw, its passionateJohn Boyne, author ofThe Boy in Striped Pyjamas On a late August night a young man is kicked to death outside a Dublin nightclub and celebration turns to devastation. The reverberations of that event, its genesis and aftermath, are the subject of this extraordinary story, stripping away the veneer of a generation of Celtic cubs, whose social and sexual mores are chronicled and dissected in this tract for our times. The victim, Conor Harris, his killers - three of them are charged with manslaughter - and the trial judge share common childhoods and schooling in the privileged echelons of south Dublin suburbia. The intertwining of these lives leaves their afflicted families in moral free fall as public exposure merges with private anguish and imploded futures.Praise forKevin Power: Kevin Power is an author of magnificent control, stirring the deepest compassion with restless anger in this piercing contemporary novelFrank McGuinness This novel marks the debut of a deeply moral and probing writer - and a potentially great oneSunday Post (Ireland) White City is a dark, hilarious and emotionally profound study of the toxic effects of greed and entitlement. Also, a story brilliantly and movingly told. Couldn't stop reading it. Will read it again Ed OLoughlin, authorof Not Untrue and Not Unkind and This EdenThis is part thriller but mostly a look at what it means to grow up... full of ridiculously beautiful, polished, & often scathing sentences. This novel is pleasing on so many levels, both intellectually & emotionally... Youll laugh, youll cry... Read it, read it, read it Claire Hennessy, author, editor & publisher at Banshee Press