My retirement from the rat race enabled me to take up my first love of writing, particularly historical fiction of the twentieth century. I try to combine historical events into an enthralling story so that a reader learns how ordinary people were affected by the hardships that wars and social problems brought. My inspiration for ‘A Sixth Sense’ started with a non-fiction book called ‘Dublin Tenement Life’ which was a series of interviews with people who had lived in these…..
Readers of ‘A Sixth Sense’ have asked me whether you can truly escape from your past. I don’t think you can ever totally escape your past. You may run from it and succeed in hiding from it but when stressed by events it comes to the surface. What do you think?
What would you do to escape the grinding poverty of life in a Dublin slum in the 1930s? What chance do you have to break out of its debilitating and mind-numbing hold on you? Would you kill to survive? This is the dilemma facing Francis Reagan. He has a run-in with a paedophile priest whose subsequent murder unleashes for him a lifelong odyssey. Wherever he goes, he can’t find peace as his past continuously haunts him and further crimes entrap…..