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Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in high-profile films such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto. Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game. He has during later years had important roles in director Hugo Blick’s TV series The Shadow Line and The Honourable Woman, for which he won a BAFTA award.

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Title:

In the Forest

Written by:

Edna O'Brien 

Read by:

Stephen Rea 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

6 

Duration:

6 hours 39 minutes 

Published:

September 28 2016 

Available Date:

September 28 2016 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489357441 

Genres:

Fiction; Crime & Thriller 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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AUD$ 29.95

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'This often frightening novel has a curiously timeless feel.'
The Daily Telegraph

'An absorbing and haunting novel ... never sensationalist, this is a considered study of a particularly shocking case.'
The Sunday Times

Moving novel by one of Ireland's finest contemporary novelists, and inspired by a notorious true-life triple murder.

In the Forest, set in the west of Ireland, is the story of a young man who shoots dead three people in a forest glade. The young man, Mich O'Kane, is "not all there in the head" as one character puts it. By puberty, he is already committing petty crimes, ending up in borstal. By the time he is back home he has also served time in a British jail and is an institutionalised criminal. His sexual fantasies, revolving around women in the village, eventually centre on Eily, an artist and single mother, who lives with her son Maddie. One day Mich pounces, and orders Eily to drive them to the woods nearby.

'O'Brien has created a tense yet sensitively-written story, woven delicately with both mythology and modern sociological issues.'
The Sunday Business Post