- Title:
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In the Forest (MP3)
- Written by:
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Edna O'Brien
- Read by:
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Stephen Rea
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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6 hours 40 minutes
- MP3 size:
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293 MB
- Published:
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September 28 2016
- Available Date:
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September 28 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489357458
- Genres:
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Fiction; Crime & Thriller
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
'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