All Names Have Been Changed: Claire Kilroy (From Milford Mercury)

All Names Have Been Changed: Claire Kilroy

9:00am Monday 29th June 2009

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All Names Have Been Changed

Claire Kilroy
Faber (£12.99)

Set in Dublin in the mid-1980s, with the Irish capital in the grip of recession and a heroin epidemic, All Names Have Been Changed is narrated by Declan, the only boy of a tight-knit writing group at Trinity College.

The story follows the group, consisting of Declan and four women —Aisling, Antonia, Faye and Guinevere — who become strangely fascinated with the talented but troubled writer Glynn, and the dark and bizarre journey this obsession takes them on.

Many of us have had crushes on a teacher, but Kilroy takes this idea to a new different level.

The novel, which looks at the shifting group dynamic as things soon take a depressing turn, also offers an insight into the writing world.

All Names Have Been Changed will take you on an unpredictable journey into some dark nooks and crannies.

RATING: ***
Shereen Low

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