(.) Gradually, what the child-narrator sees and hears begins to turn into what he knows and understands -secrets, conflicts, histories, beliefs. "Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People triumphantly avoids the Angela's Ashes style of sentimental nostalgia and victim claims, and stands up well in the mighty, unending competition for most memorable Irish life-story."(T)his vivid, timely, moving and enthrallingly comic memoir (.) The Speckled People is about homesickness: his mother's for Germany, his father's for an unavailable Ireland and the writer's for a home and homeland of his own" - Michael Thompson-Noel, Financial Times.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī : an odd childhood recounted in unusual (and ultimately not entirely successful) style Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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