![]() In the mid-90s, when sexual abuse in the Catholic Church came to light, Tom is shaken from his retirement in Dalkey by the arrival of two Dublin Garda who are investigating a notoriously nasty priest. ![]() Whether Tom is smoking cigarillos while watching cormorants bobbing on the Irish Sea, seeing ghosts or helping former colleagues investigate paedophile priests, the pellucid prose and near perfect pacing of Old God’s Time rarely falter. The mind of Tom Kettle, the widowed “old policeman with a buckled heart” who is the protagonist of Irish writer Sebastian Barry’s ninth novel, is so captivating that even when you are not sure if he’s describing real or imagined events, what he is saying sounds truthful. ![]()
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