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The Fire Starters
Jan Carson
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Description for The Fire Starters
Paperback.
**WINNER of the EU Prize for Literature**
'One of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES
'Gripping, affecting, surprising. I inhaled it' LISA MCINERNEY
'Captivating, intelligent and courageous' IRISH TIMES
'Spectacular. At once grittily real, wildly magical and insanely alluring - a siren-song of a novel.' DONAL RYAN
'Jan Carson seems to have invented a new Belfast in this gripping, surprising, exhilarating novel.' RODDY DOYLE
'Blew me away with its power, anger and wit.' JOSEPH O'CONNOR
Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter is ... Read morenot as harmless as she seems.
Sammy Agnew is wrestling with his dark past, and fears the violence in his blood lurks in his son, too.
The city is in flames and the authorities are losing control. As matters fall into frenzy, and as the lines between fantasy and truth, right and wrong, begin to blur, who will these two fathers choose to protect?
Dark, propulsive and thrillingly original, this tale of fierce familial love and sacrifice fizzes with magic and wonder.
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Product Details
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
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About Jan Carson
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by a short story collection, Children’s Children (2016), and a flash fiction anthology, Postcard Stories (2017). Her work has appeared in numerous journals and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. In 2016 she won ... Read morethe Harper’s Bazaar short story competition and was shortlisted for the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize. She specializes in running arts projects and events with older people, especially those living with dementia. The Fire Starters is her second novel. Show Less
Reviews for The Fire Starters
Gripping, affecting, surprising. I inhaled it.
Lisa McInerney Spectacular . . . Dark, beautiful, at once grittily real and wildly magical. Insanely alluring.
Donal Ryan Blew me away with its power, anger and wit.
Joseph O'Connor, Books of the Year
A big and rambunctious novel that casts a cold satirical eye on themes such as language, ... Read moreculture, identity, sectarianism, and the terrifying proximity of the past
Sunday Times, 50 Greatest Irish Novels of the 21st Century
Shimmering with wit, simmering with an incandescent rage, shot through with a seam of wild magic, The Fire Starters is a powerful, disturbing portrait of East Belfast and its people and its hope for the future. I won’t be the only reader to proclaim that, in the best way possible, Jan Carson is on fire.
Lucy Caldwell
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