(Continued from "A Place of Safety-New World For Old) Brendan is called home to see his mother before she dies of cancer. Using the chaos of the hunger strikes, he sneaks into Derry despite knowing the British forces still want to interrogate him over the bombing that injured him. Now he must navigate the anger growing around him, even as he discovers he's been lied to about Joanna, learns his father may have been far more than a simple drunken brute, finds his youngest brother, Kieran, hates him, and he is caught in a very casual betrayal that could easily kill him. Yet in the face of the growing turmoil and exploding violence he continues to fight to determine the direction of his life.

I am a writer and self-involved artist who's lived in London and Honolulu, and a dozen places in-between. I've also traveled around the world, and some of my artwork has been purchased by collectors.

I also used to write screenplays and have won numerous awards for them...despite none being produced. That's how A Place of Safety began life?as an idea for one, twenty-five years ago. But it deepened and expanded and changed direction and became the life of an Irish Catholic boy during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. I'm currently working on a gothic horror novel dealing with an ancient tale of harpies that live in the caves of the Cliffs of Moher, on Ireland's far west coast.

In my writing, I've tried to build characters as vivid and real as possible and have a lot of fun doing it...mixed with angst, anger, amazement...and sometimes vicious arguments with the characters in each book. I like to think I've done well by them.

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