Book reviews - Reading of Redemption

Grace Notes - Bernard McLaverty

Almost a Booker Prize for NI writer McLaverty who of course gave us Cal and Lamb in the 80's. Again this one is set in mid Ulster with a generation gap dilemma for a traditional Roman Catholic family and their Queen's Music graduate daughter who has had a child out of wedlock in Scotland. The struggle is real on both sides of the religious divide and Bernard has made you feel part of a tragic story with lessons for us all. If you are into your classical music you will love this even more as it describes in close detail all kinds of musical pieces. It is a sad and beautiful world.

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