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Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told

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Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told

By: Tom Phelan
Narrated by: Jack Reynolds
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Part human comedy and part mystery, Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told is an enthralling, masterful story about what holds a village together and what keeps people apart. When journalist Patrick Bracken returns to Gohen, the Irish village where he was born, he knows the eyes of the townspeople are on him. He has come home to investigate two deaths that happened decades earlier when he was a child, deaths that were ruled accidental. But Patrick knows - and believes the whole town knows - they were murders. He knows because he and his best friend Mikey Lamb were witnesses.

And so Patrick goes to see 80-year-old Sam Howard, the lawyer who conducted the inquest into the death of missionary priest Jarlath Coughlin. As he questions Sam and Sam's vibrant, loving, gossipy wife Elsie, he seeks acknowledgment of a cover-up and an explanation of why the Protestant establishment would help conceal a crime among Catholics. During their give-and-take - about this and the nearly simultaneous shotgun death of Lawrence Gorman (aka Doul Yank) - what emerges from their collective memories are a pungent, wry portrait of village life in Ireland and a tangle of human relationships, some twisted and some that show our better side.

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A cleverly woven telling of a small town pulling together to look after its own.Jumps around a bit but is well worth the effort of following the different narratives and timelines. The narration is delightful as are many of the characters - especially the kids

Complex but engaging story .

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The way this book is written as a story that jumps between events of the past and the present combined with the overly descriptive style of the writing made it very challenging to follow in parts. I considered more than once abandoning the book and really struggled for several hours of the story before I felt like it finally started to flow more smoothly. When it did I enjoyed it but it was hard work to get there.

Hard work

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There was hardly any suspense. A lot of the conversation seemed to drag the plot quite unnecessarily.

The presentation was good.

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