Philip Casey

The Fabulists is a love story set in Con­tem­por­ary Dub­lin. After a brief encounter on the Ha’Penny Bridge over the Lif­fey, Tess and Mungo con­trive to make their paths cross again. “Two spoof­ers,” Tess thinks to her­self. ˜It might even be fun.“
The rela­tion­ship that devel­ops extends the hori­zon of their lives on the dole, strug­gling with chil­dren and mar­riage, filled with sexual long­ing, and hungry for pur­pose.
As life and fantasy inter­weave between Dub­lin, Wex­ford, Bar­celona and Ber­lin, Tess and Mungo con­sum­mate their love through tales which are exotic and often guilt-ridden, con­front­ing truths about them­selves, and restor­ing the fab­ric of a torn past.
This novel about love and par­ent­hood, desire and frailty, describes ordin­ary lives and emo­tions in an extraordin­ary way.
–The Lil­li­put Ori­ginal Paper­back Description

The Fabulists is the first volume in The Bann River Tri­logy, and was pub­lished in trade paper­back format in Octo­ber, 1994, by The Lil­li­put Press Dub­lin
ISBN 1 874675 30 9
The Fabulists can be pur­chased from
The Lil­li­put Press
Amazon.co.uk

Some review excerpts

“a pas­sion­ate, erotic, mature novel.” Ronan Sheehan

“…stands shoulder to shoulder with the very best Irish fic­tion of the last few years.” Colin Lacey, The Irish Voice, New York

“This is a book I’ve read now three or four times, and it has that really mag­ni­fi­cent qual­ity that great nov­els have, where you find your­self think­ing about them a few weeks after you fin­ish read­ing them.” Joseph O’Connor, RTÉ Radio

“An Irish love story for the 1990s.” Anthony Glavin, The Sunday Tribune

“Philip Casey’s bril­liant debut novel” Gerry Smyth, in Con­tem­por­ary Irish Fic­tion Themes, Tropes, The­or­ies Edited by Liam Harte and Michael Parker (Lon­don, Mac­Mil­lan, 2000/New York, St Martin’s Press, 2000)

“This will lie around for a few years and then be declared a Mod­ern Clas­sic.” Amazon.co.uk reader

See more reviews at The Fabulists Reviews

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The Fabulists is now avail­able as a free down­load, issued under a Cre­at­ive Com­mons Licence licence, ie it is free to down­load and dis­trib­ute but some rights are reserved. You can read it online, or down­load it in MS Word, Open Office 2, and/or PDF formats.
The post­ing of The Fabulists on the web under a Cre­at­ive Com­mons licence has been made pos­sible by the gen­er­ous and enlightened sup­port of its pub­lisher Ant­ony Far­rell of
The Lil­li­put Press, and also of my former agent, Lisa Eveleigh.
My thanks to them both.

Go dir­ectly to its sub­site to either read online and/or down­load. There are also images, reviews etc, includ­ing a WARNING as the novel is not suit­able for minors.

Go to THE FABULISTS subsite