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Hello and Goodbye

Hello Mr Bones / Goodbye Mr Rat

Patrick McCabe author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Quercus Publishing

Published:26th Sep '13

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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Welcome to Hello and Goodbye: two dark tales from two deceased narrators - bottled-lightning treats that will make you gasp, gurn, shiver and squirm. HELLO MR BONES: two damaged souls have, thanks to each other's love, turned their lives around. But as London's weather takes a turn for the worse, so do their fates, when raw evil runs riot the night of the impossible hurricane. GOODBYE MR RAT: an IRA bomber watches over his ex-lover as she takes his ashes back to his rural hometown. This girl from northern Indiana may not be ready for rural Ireland, yet the townsfolk of Iron Valley certainly have plans for her...Stark, blackly humorous and compressed to the point of detonation; McCabe writes like M. R. James took a dread wrong turning on an Irish country road.

'Exuberant and witty ... Deserves to rekindle his former glories' The Times. * The Times *
'McCabe is a master ... Stark, fierce, and wonderful' Guardian. * Guardian *
'Sees the master of the Irish gothic genre return to his best form' Observer. * Observer *

ISBN: 9781782060130

Dimensions: 236mm x 165mm x 26mm

Weight: 502g

288 pages