The Island – Six Fiction

The Island – Six Fiction

Winner of the 2017 Drue Heinz prize for Literature

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The opening chapters featuring Joe and Suzie make exquisite reading. But it is the lasting bonds of love that make Wall’s novel great. Scared of developing Huntingdon’s, Joe wants to “spare” Suzie, but she is made of sterner stuff, bringing an element of hope and strength to the novel. And over it all, there’s the enduring love of Joe’s parents’.
Sue Leonard in Books Ireland
Joe Lyons has never had much success with relationships until he meets Suzie, a young music teacher. Living a solitary existence as a writer, he’s alienated his mother with his autobiographical first novel and has little to say to his stridently religious sister, Mary. Only his father keeps in regular touch. But now, in the warmth of this new love, the happy endings finally seem to outnumber the tragedies. So when news comes that his mother is seriously ill, he returns home, but what he finds there shocks him out of his complacency and Joe, like his father, comes to understand the true nature of love.