Cal is a very poor boy who doesn’t have a lot of luck in his life. He thinks a lot and has many nightmares about the murder of Marcella’s husband. He feels guilt about the mu

rder of Marcella’s husband who was shot by one of Cal’s friends when he was the driver. He feels sorry but there is no possibility to show it because Marcella’s doesn’t know anything about his secret.

The main character in the book is Cal Mc Cluskey, a 19-year-old Catholic man. His mother died when he was 8 years old. Cal is unemployed because he quit his job in the abattoir where his father works. He couldn‘t stand the unpleasant smell there. Cal lives with his father Shamie in a Protestant area where they are the only Catholic family but Shamie doesn’t want to move away. He says that no loyalist bastard is going to force him out of his home and that they have to kill him first.“ Although there are some threatening letters and violent attacks of members of the Protestant UVF they don‘t give up their home. Sometimes Cal goes to the library. A new woman works there. Her name is Marcella. She is a 28-year-old Catholic woman who has got a daughter called Lucy. Marcella is very shy. Cal goes to the library very often just to see Marcella and not to borrow books. He falls in love with Marcella but she doesn’t realize. There are also other pepole who are important in Cal‘s life: Crilly, a schoolmate and not a real friend and Skeffington, a local IRA leader. They control Cal‘s life. They are brutal and they need Cal as a driver for their criminal acts. Actually, Cal doesn’t want to be a member of the IRA anymore, but he is forced to be one.

Marcella: She is a very unhappy woman in her late twenties. She lost her husband in an attack of the IRA. During the story you find out that she didn’t love her husband anymore in the end. Now she is living together with the parents of her husband and especially her mother-in-law bosses her around. Marcella doesn’t have any friends and she would like to

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