Fiction debut – Kathleen Kenney’s GIRL ON THE LEESIDE, set in the present day west of Ireland, the coming-of-age story of a sheltered young woman, whose mother was killed in an I.R.A. bombing in the North when she was two, who is then raised by her bachelor uncle with whom she shares a near obsessive passion for Irish folklore and poetry, but for her it is an escape that borders on fanaticism, until her protected world is turned on its axis with the arrival of two men, one from the present and one from the past, who visit her uncle’s rural pub, necessitating Siobhan make a decision to either emerge from her cocoon or retreat back into a darker self, to Nan Talese at Nan A. Talese, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
