Himself, Jess Kidd
Himself, Jess Kidd
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Himself

Author: Jess Kidd

Narrator: Aidan Kelly

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/14/2017


Synopsis

A charming ne’er-do-well returns to his haunted Irish hometown to uncover the truth about his mother in this “supernaturally skilled debut” (Vanity Fair) and turns the town—and his life—upside down.

Having been abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, Mahony assumed all his life that his mother wanted nothing to do with him. That is, until one night in 1976 while drinking a pint at a Dublin pub, he receives an anonymous note implying that she may have been forced to give him up. Determined to find out what really happened, Mahony embarks on a pilgrimage back to his hometown, the rural village of Mulderrig. Neither he nor Mulderrig can possibly prepare for what’s in store…

From the moment he arrives, Mahony’s presence completely changes the village. Women fall all over themselves. The real and the fantastic are blurred. Chatty ghosts rise from their graves with secrets to tell, and local preacher Father Quinn will do anything to get rid of the slippery young man who is threatening the moral purity of his parish.

A spectacular new addition to the grand Irish storytelling tradition, Himself “is a darkly comic tale of murder, intrigue, haunting and illegitimacy…wickedly funny” (Daily Express).

About Jess Kidd

Jess Kidd is the award-winning author of Murder at Gulls NestThe Night ShipHimselfMr. Flood’s Last Resort, and Things in Jars. Learn more at JessKidd.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin

He sees dead people. Yowza! Yowza! Yowza! If ever a book could grab my attention right from the first page, it was this one! For a very long time, I have yearned for an author like Jess Kidd to appear: the ghosts of Dylan Thomas, Gabriel García Márquez and James Joyce must surely have come to roost in......more