Its not personal, he says. But thats a lie in a place where everything is personal, and a matter of life and death too.This Human Season is awardwinning Booker longlisted author Louise Deans second novel set in Belfast, Ireland, during The Troubles of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was widely praised by critics internationally and described as astonishing by reviewers.It is November 1979. Kathleens son Sean has just been transferred to Belfasts most notorious prison Long Kesh, recently renamed the Maze. Kathleen knows that he will join the other prisoners on their noncooperation protest, known as the Blanket. Rumours of a hunger strike are beginning to circulate.John Dunn has finished twenty years in the British Army. After three tours of Belfast, hes found a girl and a house and a job as a prison guard. In the weeks before Christmas, both Kathleen and John will find themselves in impossible situations. Both will have to find a way to survive when everything they love is in danger of being destroyed.BreathtakingThis Human Season is a novel that confirms the arrival of a significant voice in British fiction.The ObserverMagnificent.Arena.This is a fine and thoughtful historical novel which manages to find humour and decency in the most awful of places.The Sunday TimesAudacious . . . remarkable. That an English woman born after the Troubles began should take one of its most grisly episodesthe dirty protests in the Maze prisonas the focus of a compelling family drama is...

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