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This remarkable debut novel from one of IrelandÕs most promising emerging talents is a startling parable of our uncertain age

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An Apology For Roses Debut and the confusion of menIntroduction by Nicole Flattery First published in 1973 and swiftly banned, John Brodericks An Apology for Roses returns as one of the most audacious portraits of provincial Ireland ever written. Set in a midlands town where respectability masks obsession, corruption and thwarted desire, the novel follows the intersecting lives of Marie Fogarty clever, restless, dangerously sure of her own charm and Father Tom Moran, the charismatic curate drawn into