A Belfast man out walking his dog is kidnapped... A catholic schoolboy with priestly ambitions confronts a BSpecial on guard duty when he runs to retrieve a foo... » 

A Belfast man out walking his dog is kidnapped... A catholic schoolboy with priestly ambitions confronts a BSpecial on guard duty when he runs to retrieve a football. In At the Beach a middleaged couple...awkwardly appraise the state of their long marriage... To point out the excellence of Mac Lavertys writing is almost to do it a disservice. His prose is invisible free of tricks as though it was your own thoughts. His characters are revealed whole through every scrap of dialogue. «