Father’s Music

Father’s Music
Dermot Bolger

From one of Ireland’s bestselling writers, a literary thriller set in London and Dublin.A combination of family fable and gripping thriller, ‘Father’s Music’ tells the story of Tracey, the troubled twenty-two-year-old daughter of an Englishwoman and a wandering musician from Donegal. She knows very little about her father, who returned to Ireland before Tracey was born, but when she is taken to Ireland by her lover, a Dublin businessman with underworld connections, Tracey at last feels she is coming home – to her father’s land.Caught up in Dublin low-life, tormented by memories of her dead mother and eager to follow up news of her father, Tracey finds her journey home to be a dangerous and extraordinary one…

DERMOT BOLGER

Father’s Music

Dedication (#ulink_64ef68fb-e66a-57ab-b567-6a2234a4d3ba)

IN MEMORY

Johnny Doherty, travelling fiddle-player

from Donegal,

Seamus Ennis, Ard-Rí of Irish pipers

from Finglas, North Dublin

and

Seosamh Ó hEanaí (Joe Heaney),

Sean-nós singer from Connemara,

County Galway.

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