
This is a perfect follow-up to the author's Barrytown trilogy. The storyline is quirky and the gnarly characters, Davey and Joe, have not aged gracefully nor necessarily wisely, but they have retained all the wry humor and angst that make them alive, real, and enormously loveable. This is a story about dreams lost and found, sometimes mislaid and redeemed--not always to the good. The novel is also a love letter not just to Dublin, but to pub life. ~ Reviewed by Maeve Noonan