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Andrew Hughes

The Convictions of John Delahunt

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Dublin, 1841. On a cold December morning, a small boy is enticed away from his mother and his throat savagely cut. This could be just one more small, sad death in a city riven by poverty, inequality and political unrest, but this murder causes a public outcry. For it appears the culprit - a feckless student named John Delahunt - is also an informant in the pay of the authorities at Dublin Castle. And strangely, this young man seems neither to regret what he did, nor fear his punishment. Indeed, as he awaits the hangman in his cell in Kilmainham Gaol, John Delahunt decides to tell his story in this, his final, deeply unsettling statement...Bas… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-60598-794-1
  • EAN: 9781605987941
  • Produktnummer: 20462506
  • Verlag: Pegasus Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.7 cm x D3.0 cm 499 g
  • Gewicht: 499

Über den Autor


Andrew Hughes was born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. It was while researching his acclaimed social history of Fitzwilliam Square-Lives Less Ordinary: Dublin's Fitzwilliam Square, 1798-1922-that he first came across the true story of John Delahunt that inspired his debut novel, The Convictions of John Delahunt. Andrew lives in Dublin.

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