Isolt, a young Irish drifter, falls in with Christopher, and the two run scams, tell tales, and run with a band of vagabonds and junkies, until Isolt becomes determined to escape life as a beggar
Emer Martin Books
Emer Martin is a writer whose works delve into the complexities of human relationships and existential questions across diverse settings. Her writing is marked by a strong sense of place and a keen attention to her characters' inner lives. Martin's narratives often oscillate between reality and imagination, exploring themes of identity, displacement, and the search for meaning in a restless world. Her distinctive style, influenced by her background in visual arts, lends her prose a captivating depth and aesthetic quality.
Two families inhabit this immersive polyvocal work, an intergenerational saga announced with The Cruelty Men (2018) and continued here as punk rockers and Magdalene laundries spiral into a post-colonial Ireland still haunted by its tribal undertow.
