The Lock-Keepers Wife Biography ‘In putting together the present

‘In putting together the present book

and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Ireland in 2002/2003

from Cairo and Compostela to Carraroe

describes in a first-person narrative his childhood up to the early years of his career as a journalist and his departure from University College Dublin in the late 1960s

The Lock-Keepers Wife Biography ‘In putting together the presentA Top 10 Fiction Best Seller "A masterpiece" Irish Independent "A gorgeous and very serious piece of writing A yarn of yearning" The Oliver Callan Show Julie McDermot has just been released from The Mental, the psychiatric institution where her husband committed her after the devastating loss of their two infant children. Returning to her narrow, lonely life along the canal, Julie is haunted by grief and the aching absence of what might have been. As