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2000s: He stole her life and now she wants it back
Siren
What you need to know before your trail
Róisín Burns has spent the past twenty years becoming someone else; her life in New York is built on lies.
A figure from her Belfast childhood flashes up on the news: Brian Lonergan has also reinvented himself. He is now a rising politician in a sharp suit. But scandal is brewing in Ireland and Róisín knows the truth.
Armed with the evidence that could ruin Lonergan, she travels back across the Atlantic to the remote Lamb Island to hunt him down.
But Lonergan is one step ahead; when Róisín arrives on the island, someone else is waiting for her
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Belfast
“Belfast was tight and hard and grey. It scowled under Cave Hill and caught its rain and most days black billows replaced the sky. For all the greyness there ws colour too, screaming out from tattered flags and from the yellow shipyard cranes”
Lamb Island
A small outcrop in County Kerry/Cork in the book – it’s an island community in the book where no one seems to like outsiders especially foreign ones like Americans. A new visitor brings suspicion but also the chance to see and meet someone new. The island has only one pub in the novel so it’s the focus of gossip and more
“There’s a new one coming to rent Johnny Yellow Muphy’s bungalow out at Reen. He feels the first curdle of excitement he’s had all year at the prospect of something new to look at. Out by the South Harbour on an elevated spur more than seam than land, Murphy’s house is stroked all night by the lighthouse beam. Boyl has squatted twenty years in the abandoned school that grips the rocky hill above it”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Siren
Author/Guide: Annemarie Neary Destination: Northern Ireland, Belfast, Newry Departure Time: 1970s and mid 2000s
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