"For the love of all that's right and true in the world, you've got to readJess Kidd's debut Himself (Atria), a fabulously imaginative, darkly comic Irish tale set 'in the arse-end of beyond' in a village called Mulderigg. A spectacular new addition to the grand Irish storytelling tradition, Himself "is a darkly comic tale of murder, intrigue, haunting and illegitimacy.wickedly funny" ( Daily Express ). Chatty ghosts rise from their graves with secrets to tell, and local preacher Father Quinn will do anything to get rid of the slippery young man who is threatening the moral purity of his parish. From the moment he arrives, Mahony's presence completely changes the village. Neither he nor Mulderrig can possibly prepare for what's in store. Determined to find out what really happened, Mahony embarks on a pilgrimage back to his hometown, the rural village of Mulderrig. That is, until one night in 1976 while drinking a pint at a Dublin pub, he receives an anonymous note implying that she may have been forced to give him up. Having been abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, Mahony assumed all his life that his mother wanted nothing to do with him. A charming ne'er-do-well returns to his haunted Irish hometown to uncover the truth about his mother in this "supernaturally skilled debut" ( Vanity Fair ) and turns the town-and his life-upside down.
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