Award-winning author Donal Ryan is back with another look at a small Irish town. He talks to Aine Toner about speaking to the reader and a much loved T-Rex lyric Donal Ryan. Credit: Manon Gilbert Donal Ryan’s Heart, Be At Peace is back in the same rural Irish town as the award-winning The Spinning Heart, which can be read as a companion piece.
Told in a sequence of 21 voices, it offers new stories and a chance to move on from past dramas. However, while many look towards the future, there are some wanting everything their own way, lured by the promise of fast money..