Himself
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice
Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016
Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017
Longlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2017
1950. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest. But, somehow, her baby survives.
1976. A mysterious and charming young man returns to the remote coastal village of Mulderrig, seeking answers about the mother who, it was said, had abandoned him on the steps of a Dublin orphanage.
With the help of its oldest and most eccentric inhabitant, he will force the village to give up its ghosts. Nothing, not even the dead, can stay buried forever.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
For a debut novel, Himself is astonishingly accomplished. It’s also a great many other things: a fearsome murder mystery laced with jet-black wit and fairytale elements split between 1950 and 1976. Our rambunctious anti-hero is Mahony, a roguish thief (and accidental am-dram star) who returns to his Irish village of birth determined to uncover just how his mother was killed 26 years ago. We adore Kidd’s precocious blend of comedy, suspense and fantasy—Himself is an endlessly fascinating tale we didn’t want to end.
