Deadwood Encore

A brilliantly inventive and often funny story of family and identity, inheritance and birthright, ambiguous loss and finding your way, Frank Walsh’s voice will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading.

Reviews

‘Brilliant, full of vitality and voice … Kathleen Murray is a masterful writer of dialogue.’ – KEVIN BARRY
‘A flat-out page-turner. There's so much here to delight in – fizzing dialogue, offbeat characters, flights of fancy and mad escapades […] Kathleen has the guts to take on what's miraculous and eerie, and spins Frank's story shrewdly, irreverently, and fondly.’ – LISA McINERNEY
‘So much to admire in The Deadwood Encore: a free-wheeling, demotic freshness of manner, a sustained emotional intensity – and a small Irish town brought to life with vividness and bone-dry wit. What a remarkable debut from Kathleen Murray.’ – NEIL HEGARTY
The Deadwood Encore is a warm, thoughtful, funny novel from a wise, inventive and gifted new writer.’ – LIA MILLS