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JammyDodger by Kevin Smith

JammyDodger

Kevin Smith

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Long ago in Belfast everything was nice…

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Life is sweet for would-be bohemian Artie Conville. Safe at the helm of his subsidised magazine—with a cosy office paid for by the tax-payer—he’s content to drift along quoting poetry, lingering over long lunches and flirting with the lovely Rosie McCann. The main thing is to keep the real world—of nine-to-five jobs, mortgages and political violence—at bay.

So when his cushy number is threatened, Artie hatches a cunning plan to keep the funds coming in. But events quickly spiral out of control and before long he is up to his ears in a bizarre fraud. Can he avert disaster? Will he get the girl? With a cast of characters that includes a gun-toting playwright, a jealous police chief, a drunken actor and a giant white rabbit, this is a rich and riotous tale about coming-of-age in 1980s Belfast; a novel that is by turns darkly ironic and laugh-out-loud funny.

Kevin Smith was born in London and grew up in Northern Ireland. A former journalist, he worked for a number of years as a foreign correspondent in Eastern Europe. He currently lives in Dublin with his wife and two children. Jammy Dodger is his first novel.

CATEGORY: Contemporary fiction