Himself

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Joining Mahony on his quest for answers are three women who add even more color to this richly drawn mystery about a town with more than its share of secrets. Mahoney also has some powerful enemies – those who do not want him to discover his family or where they are and will do everything they can, even evil, to stop him from discovering what happened to them. Despite resistance from a village that harbours lies, secrets and a murderer, he is implacable in his determination to discover what happened to his mother. Due to the fact that the author is of Irish descent, Jess Kidd believed that it was only right that her first novel, Himself, should definitely head to the West. For Mahony, who has always been a bit of a rake (yet a handsome one) and a ne'er-do-well, this is powerful stuff.

Himself | Book by Jess Kidd | Official Publisher Page | Simon

Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc. He closed his eyes and right there in his memory he found Sister Mary Margaret, as she was the last time he saw her. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. The dead dog turns to lick Jack’s hand, which trails down holding his cigarette, but its muzzle goes straight through and the dog, finding no response, folds itself up at the foot of his master’s bar stool and rests the good side of its face on its faint paws. Today Mulderrig is just a benign little speck of a place, uncoiled and sprawling, stretched out in the sun.

Mahony’s mother, Orla, was a ragtag single mum with supernatural powers that townspeople found unsettling. The novel opens with a prologue in which a man is violently attacking a woman while their son looks on. This reading group guide for Himself includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. Inside the envelope was a photograph of a girl with a half smile holding a blurred bundle, high and awkwardly, like found treasure.

Himself by Jess Kidd review – a dark and rollicking debut

She adds some supernatural elements here with our main character Mahony who sees the dead that holds the secrets and lies in a small Irish town.Letter bombs, poisoned scones, a 1970s Irish village that is more than desperate to maintain its pious façade, and a hero who sees dead people; the ingredients of drama and mystery are all present in Jess Kidd’s debut novel. In Mulderrig, Mahony learns, all is not as it seems; the departed prove to be the least of his worries. With looks like that, thinks Tadhg, the fella is either a poet or a gobshite, with the long hair and the leather jacket and the walk on it, like his doesn’t smell.