Trinity

Louisa Hall Corsair €18.95

As in her distinctive previous novel, Speak, Hall tells her story through multiple narrators. Here they are connected to J Robert Oppenheimer, head of the team that developed the A-bomb. A cloud of personal and public treachery hangs over the physicist for years. Themes of guilt and betrayal help form a portrait of a man who fathered the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and then went on to embrace liberal causes and lobby against nuclear proliferation. Jeffrey Burke