“The Hill Road” is Patrick O’Keeffe’s first book. The book is
a collection of 4 novellas set in a fictional Irish dairy farming village. The
stories are mostly set in the 50s and 60s, and are mainly told by boys or young
men, and concern the church, the land, family, and work. In the title story,
Jack Carmody sorts through the various stories about his hero Albert Cagney,
and what happened when he came home from the First World War. In another of the
novellas, a man finds out that the woman he loves is the sister of someone he
once wronged to please his family. In “The Postman’s Cottage”, the author’s favourite
from the collection, an encounter on a train forces an old woman to confront a
truth that she has long denied. There’s also the story of a girl whose parents
emigrated to the US, who visits Ireland in the hope of finding a haven. “The
Hill Road” won the 2006 Story Prize, currently America’s richest annual prize
for fiction. To find out more about the author, you must visit our Patrick O’Keeffe
page.
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