Father’s Music

From one of Ireland’s bestselling writers, a literary thriller set in London and Dublin.

A combination of family fable and gripping thriller, ‘Father’s Music’ tells the story of Tracey, the troubled twenty-two-year-old daughter of an Englishwoman and a wandering musician from Donegal. She knows very little about her father, who returned to Ireland before Tracey was born, but when she is taken to Ireland by her lover, a Dublin businessman with underworld connections, Tracey at last feels she is coming home – to her father’s land.

Caught up in Dublin low-life, tormented by memories of her dead mother and eager to follow up news of her father, Tracey finds her journey home to be a dangerous and extraordinary one…

Reviews

‘Father’s Music pulses to the rhythm of a taut romantic thriller. It is the work of a master craftsman, with intricate plotting and the interweaving of characters’ lives casting a hypnotic spell’
Jack Hanna, Irish Times

‘Dermot Bolger creates a Dublin, a particular world, like no one else writing can… It is the urban landscape of the thriller that Bolger has made exclusively his own’ Anne Haverty, Sunday Independent

‘A masterly psychological thriller’ Sunday Telegraph

About the author

Dermot Bolger is a distinguished novelist and playwright. His novels include The Journey Home, The Woman’s Daughter, Emily’s Shoes, and, most recently, A Second Life. He lives and works in Dublin.