Poguemahone
FOLLOWING HIS early success with The Butcher Boy in 1992, Patrick McCabe’s distinctive tongue-in-cheek fiction has often been hit and miss. The alternating scenes of familial trauma and false jollity in his new novel immediately signal recognisable elements from previous work, raising questions that he is simply retelling the same essential ‘Bog Gothic’ story as... Read more »
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