Frances Creighton: Found and Lost
by Kirby Porter
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Set at the start of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, this is a love story about two schoolchildren in a culture dominated by divides that weren’t just sectarian.
The story starts years later, in London, when Michael Roberts—unable to cope with his English girlfriend’s death—finds himself thinking back to Belfast in the late 1960s when he was in love for the first time.
To his surprise and increasing torment, his memories—long buried—prove elusive, so that struggling to remember what happened and why he had suppressed it becomes more and more of an obsession.
Frances Creighton: Found and Lost is a deeply felt first novel that conveys the pain of late adolescence in a community where school and religion add more layers of cruelty to the under-lying instability of daily life and Northern Irish politics.
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Endorsements
“A disturbing love story that reminds the reader not just that adolescent love can hurt but that adolescence itself is often a catalogue of experiences that are better blocked out.”
M. Bawden
“Belfast’s answer to Sally Rooney's Normal People.”
Chi-Chi Chimbawa
Author Biography
Kirby Porter grew up in Belfast near the Harland and Wolff shipyard where a grandfather and a great-grandfather helped build the Titanic between 1909–12.
He studied Russian at Queen’s University Belfast and took further degrees at the University of London and the University of Wales.
He became Head of Library Services for a North London borough, gave talks on Russian and Irish Poetry, and was an active trade unionist.
Back in Belfast he created library services for both the Northern Ireland Civil Service and the Northern Ireland Assembly, as well as teaching courses in Information Management at the University of Ulster.
He is now a grandfather and lives on the east coast of Scotland.
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- Publisher EnvelopeBooks
- Publication Date December 2021
- ISBN/Identifier 9781838172077
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 9.99 GBP
- Pages204
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2021
- Page size8" x 5" (203.2 x 127) mm
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