Sudden Times

Ollie Ewing has forgotten the thing that tells him who he is. The hero of Dermott Healey''s Sudden Times has returned to Sligo to recover from "a few experiences" in London by laying low and listening to "complaints and sermons, jibes and asides" in his own head. Men are after him. A crowd of them. Or maybe not. He''s in hiding, mostly from his own shame. His brother Redmond and his best friend Ma...