The Fisher Child can be bought online at Amazon UK
The Fisher Child, the final volume in The Bann River Trilogy, is published by Picador of London
ISDN 0 330 48301 3 hardback
ISDN 0 330 48302 1 paperback
‘‘ a beautiful, evocative tale of love tested.’’ Sue Leonard, Irish Examiner
‘‘this wise, tender novel.’’ Paul Magrs, TLS
‘‘A fresh and intriguing book that many writers would love to have written.’’
Mary O’Donnell, Amazon.co.uk
Picador Hardback blurb
Growing up in Irish families in London, Dan and Kate first met unenthusiastically as children in the 1970s. Now, years later, they are on holiday in Italy, married, in love, parents to a boy and girl. And when Kate discovers she is pregnant again, it seems they will be closer than ever.
But when Meg is born, their lives are changed utterly. Trust is replaced with suspicion and anger. Dan flees to Ireland and to his father, seeking to understand what has happened to his family and to himself. It is clear, however, that his bewilderment has much older roots. We are taken back to 1798 where Dan’s ancestor, Hugh Byrne, is fighting on Vinegar Hill in the Rebellion. Troubled by the violence done to his family, and the violence in himself, Hugh goes into exile in the tropics, where he gradually overcomes his prejudice and remorse and begins a family with a young woman, Ama.
The Fisher Child is the third novel in Philip Casey’s Bann River Trilogy and is his best fiction to date, demonstrating, with acute sensitivity, the threads of the past that exist in every family. The Fisher Child is a touching and at times, agonising, exploration of the constantly shifting nature of love. It is a book that will linger long in the memory.
