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Sat 01 Jan 2009Small-town Ireland in sharp relief
FICTION: EILEEN BATTERSBYreviews John the RevelatorBy Peter Murphy Faber, 254pp, £12.99
JOHN THE NARRATOR sees everything and remembers most of it. His memory is that bit sharper than those of his peers; he has his reasons – he is the child of Lily Devine, a mother who defies the ordinary. The fact that she can do this is in itself impressive. Here is a woman for whom life has been hard, cleaning other people’s houses, washing their clothes; yet simple reality has dented neither her vision nor her optimism.
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