Book reviews - Reading of Redemption

The Salesman - Joseph O'Connor

Set in south Dublin this is a book of a man having to deal with revenge or forgiveness - what is the best solution. His daughter having been left in a coma by a Petrol Station robbery our mainman, Billy Sweeney, sets out for revenge and the book is him writing the story in diary form for his daughter in case she awakens after he has gone. Determined to reek a torturous revenge Sweeney captures his victim the criminal and leaves him for days in the Avery at the bottom of his garden. The rest is the battle as to what is the way to freedom for everyone involved. Gripping, brutal, sensitive and wise.

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