ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINALS

From the Orange Prize-winning author of We need to talk about Kevin comes a bold and savage story of the intersection of politics and human relationships set in turbulent Northern Ireland. Having abandoned Philadelphia for the life of an international nomad Estrin Lancaster has a taste for hot spots. She now finds herself in Belfast a city scarred by twenty years of ritualised violence. As the former purveyor of his own bomb-disposal service Farrell O’Phelan courts the company of destruction. Technically a Catholic he shuns allegiance of any kind. For these two normal life is anathema; love is a trap. What ensues is an affair between two loners who are beset with a fear of domesticity and a hunger for devastation.