A widow spends weeks haunting a cemetery, desperate to track down an unknown woman who keeps leaving flowers on her husband’s grave; A daughter searches a foreign city for her father, trying to understand why he disappeared forty-five years ago; A former gay lover of Roger Casement stands among the crowds at his state funeral in 1965, paying silent homage to the closeted world they were forced to inhabit at the dawning of the Irish State. A writer at a book launch comes face to face with the person secretly responsible for his success.
In his first collection of short stories, Dermot Bolger peers under the veneer of our lives, exploring the secrets that bind families together, or tear them apart, creating worlds where people find that nothing is truly certain. There are always truths just beyond reach that would make sense of their lives, if they only know how to unlock them.
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"Bolger writes with great intuition about the secrets and lies that circulate beneath the surface of our everyday lives."
" - Sunday Business Post Magazine
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"Dermot Bolger's new short story collection deals imaginatively with themes such as the fallibility of memory and the explosive ramifications of long-held, deeply buried secrets."
" - rte.ie
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"Secrets Never Told is a taut collection of stories delivered with precision and poise."
" - Irish Times
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In his first collection of short stories, Dermot Bolger peers under the veneer of our lives, exploring the secrets that bind families together, or tear them apart, creating worlds where people find that nothing is truly certain. There are always truths just beyond reach that would make sense of their lives, if they only know how to unlock them.
"
"Bolger writes with great intuition about the secrets and lies that circulate beneath the surface of our everyday lives."
" - Sunday Business Post Magazine
"
"Dermot Bolger's new short story collection deals imaginatively with themes such as the fallibility of memory and the explosive ramifications of long-held, deeply buried secrets."
" - rte.ie
"
"Secrets Never Told is a taut collection of stories delivered with precision and poise."
" - Irish Times
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