![]() ![]() ![]() Helen, the eldest sister, is a lawyer based in Belfast who deals mainly with cases involving the perpetrators of terrorist offences. She is the middle of the Quinn sisters and is a glamourous and successful fashion journalist, living in London. Was it possible to have too happy a childhood, to be loved too much?Īs the book opens, the middle sister Cate, is coming home to Northern Ireland for a week-long visit to see her family and share some news. Despite a somewhat idyllic childhood largely free from sectarian violence, their father Charlie Quinn has been murdered two years previously in a case of mistaken identity. ![]() One by One in the Darkness is set in County Antrim in 1994 just before the ceasefire and tells the story of three sisters who have grown up through the political turmoil of 1960’s and 1970’s Northern Ireland. Northern Irish writer Rosemary Jenkinson in The Irish Times Even minor psychological scars run as deep here as bullet holes but, without them, our writing would not have its passion and depth. It just goes to show that in this small country nearly every family has undergone a loss. ![]()
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