Bloomsbury U.K.
Available: 03/01/08
5.32 x 8.51 · 384 pages
978-0-7475-9423-9
CDN $23.95 · pb

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The Truth Commissioner

David Park

In this provocative novel about Ireland after the Troubles four very different men hold a terrible secret between them. Henry Stanfield, the Truth Commissioner and son of an Irish Catholic mother and an English Protestant father, will have his neutrality tested. Francis Gilroy, the new Minister for Children and Culture, is vulnerable to a murky past but his people assure him they’ve taken care of it. James Fenton, a retired cop from the Royal Ulster Constabulary, is haunted by the peaked face of a boy he could have saved. And Danny yearns to start a new life with Ramona and their unborn child. Each of these four holds a piece of the puzzle as to what happened to 15-year-old Conor Walshe on May 10th, 1990.

“The beauty of Park’s work lies in the simplicity of the telling, the exquisiteness of his language and a blazing tension ... He is, one feels, interested in the truth.” (Irish Independent)

DAVID PARK (Northern Ireland) has written six books, most recently the widely acclaimed Swallowing the Sun. He has won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award and the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature and has twice won the University of Ulster’s McCrea Literary Award.