The Wild Laughter: Winner of the 2021 Encore Award

“Comic ingenuity” and “hilarious” - two points in the description above that have no right being there. This was recommended for my work book club, I didn’t laugh or even smile from the first to the last page of the book. It was compelling, and the writing poetic, but dear god I am glad to see the back of that book and move on to something less depressing.

Shades of Kevin Barry, Pat McCabe and Mike McCormack, mixing the heartfelt and the utterly gonzo, so rural Irish you can smell the silage

As described

Nothing funny in this book at all. Desperate sad story .

I found this book unreadable.