New Lodge Affair

Between the covers of New Lodge Affair, the reader is carried along in the hostility between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland from 1947-1991. The lives of two families: the Catholic Currys and Protestant Redmonds are presented in intense detail during Northern Ireland's most deadly period by writer Russo. Intertwined through rancor and violence, the lives of these two families are presented in a suspenseful, fast paced narrative filled with passion, horror and machination. By focusing attention on the lives of the families, Russo delineates more the heartache experienced as the characters lose more than they gain from the enmity and discrimination rampant in the area.


Filled with a good bit of the poignancy found in Eric Balkan's City of Tears, and the attention to rich detail employed by Paul Clayton in Calling Crow, Russo's New Lodge Affair is an entertaining read that will keep the reader engrossed from the opening pages right on to the last paragraph. —Reviewed by Molly Martin