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Happy or unhappy, all families are a mystery. None more than the Cullens. Having escaped their clutches and moved across the water, Denny is just beginning to make a life for himself when a call from his sister brings him back to Dublin, city of his birth. Back to square one. As if squabbling siblings and unhelpful childhood friends weren't trouble enough, a ghost starts making appearances in the family home and Denny’s life starts to get a lot more complicated. Full of riotous laughter, wonderment and love found in the most unlikely places, Ghosts and Lightning is an exuberant tale of someone trying to do the right thing surrounded by the wrong choices. It is also a revealing chronicle of our times from an exceptional new Irish talent.

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Byrne is depicting a similar kind of urban underclass to the one Roddy Doyle has written about, with the same humour and attention to detail...Also in common with Doyle, Byrne does it without being patronizing or pitying.
Scottish Review of Books

Ghosts and Lightning is engaging and funny. Trevor Byrne delivers an acute portrayal of loss in a story filled with warmth, humour and wonder.
CATHERINE O'FLYNN, author of What Was Lost

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Published: 04 Jun 2009
Paperback
288 pages
Price:  £10.99
ISBN: 9781847673299

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Trevor Byrne

Trevor Byrne was born in 1981 and brought up in Clondalkin in south Dublin. He attended Trinity College. He is currently a tutor of creative writing at Glamorgan University.

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