Rockadoon Shore

Rory Gleeson John Murray €16.99

Six friends, students from Dublin, head off for a wild weekend away in a remote cottage in the west of Ireland. There is drink, there are drugs, there is sex; there are also misunderstandings and misinterpretations, rows and recriminations, and a spying elderly neighbour. Written from different viewpoints and crackling with wit and fine writing, this distinctive debut novel gives us a 360-degree perspective on the anxieties, self-doubts and fissures within the group as underlying tensions inevitably rise to the surface. An exuberant dispatch from the front line of youthful narcissism and despair. Recommended.