When a ghost from the past becomes real, everything is put at risk ...One autumn night in 1976, a young couple attempt to flee their respective lives to be together. Sean Farrell is a seventeen-year-old fisherman, recently expelled from school, who has been mistakenly linked by the State to IRA activity. Emma Balstead is a runaway boarder, and daughter of a British Military Attache officer. Though they are madly in love, theirs is a doomed affair, the consequences of which play out for years to come. Thirty-two years later, a young couple seek the help of a marriage guidance counsellor in Bristol, England. For counsellor Sean Farrell, himself struggling with personal problems, what unfolds is a journey of the heart, back to 1970s Dublin, and where it all began. Emma Balstead, it seems, is not as distant as he might have imagined. Soon, his family, career and future are all called into question, as he finds himself plunged into a crisis whose roots are seated in a distant past he thought he had long escaped. Shooting the Moon is an enchanting and utterly gripping story about the inescapable truths that define us, and about how 'the one who got away' never truly goes.
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'An enchanting part-romance, part-adventure will have you gripped from the first chapter. -- RTE Guide 20090221 'An intriguing story, artfully spliced together using memory and time ... Fannin is an exciting, fresh new voice.' Author Billy Roche -- . 20010101 'Robert Fannin is an interesting new name in Irish writing and Shooting the Moon is a commendable debut.' -- Irish Times 20090214 'The author has a vivid feel for character and he's adept at narrative tension, too.' -- Irish Independent 20090214
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Robert Fannin was born in Dublin in 1954. He has written several plays for BBC Radio 4 and is currently studying Drama and English in the Universtity of West England. He is with two children and is living in Bristol. Shooting the Moon is his first novel.
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