Pack them up! This month OrnaMulcahy chooses seven superb summer reads you won't want to put down ...
Chef Daniel Oswald Costello, hardscrabble, handsome, holder of two Michelin stars, father of two boys, husband of his childhood sweetheart, rapist? The fiery atmosphere of a restaurant at the top of its game is the setting for Sarah Gilmartin’s latest novel. Told from the perspective of Daniel, his wife Julie, and Hannah, who, a decade earlier had waitressed at T, a fabled Celtic Tiger Dublin restaurant, the book opens as a court case looms: a former employee, Tracy, has accused Daniel of rape.
Set over a decade ago in recession-ridden Belfast, it’s the story of Sean, recently returned from Liverpool where he studied English and hoped to become a writer. Drawn back into the messy lives of his old friends, he scrapes by on a part-time pub job that earns him enough to go on massive benders.
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