Hidden Symptoms
eBook - ePub

Hidden Symptoms

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eBook - ePub

Hidden Symptoms

About this book

For Theresa and her student friends, Belfast can seem an urban nightmare - a city where violence can erupt at any moment, where secrecy and bitterness are nursed behind closed doors, and where Theresa's twin brother, Francis, has been murdered, Deirdre Madden carefully and movingly reveals the crisis of faith that confronts Theresa when her devout Catholicism provides no explanation for the tragedy. Hidden Symptoms was originally published in Faber's First Fictions anthology where it was highly praised and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1987.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780571298075
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. When Theresa was small…
  7. Robert also had a duty visit to make…
  8. I love my squint, thought Theresa…
  9. Theresa was glad to see…
  10. The day before the dinner party…
  11. The evening evolved strangely.
  12. They kept lumber up in the attic…
  13. Three days later, Robert received…
  14. At Robert’s mother’s wake…
  15. Theresa’s mother stretched up…
  16. Late that night, Theresa lay in bed…
  17. As one walks across St. Peter’s Square…
  18. Snuggled down in bed…
  19. A black-and-white-photograph of her parents’ wedding…
  20. Towards the end of July…
  21. ā€œUncle Bobby?ā€
  22. Little Tommy held to his eyes an oblong…
  23. The coda to that summer…
  24. Night had fallen.
  25. Theresa looked at her hand where it lay on the pillow…
  26. Theresa knocked timidly at the door…
  27. Robert and Kathy sat in the Bonne Bouche Café…
  28. Robert had found Belfast dull…
  29. ā€œI can’t understand how you could do this to meā€¦ā€
  30. When he arose the following morning…
  31. In Boots’ baby department…
  32. Kathy did not keep her appointment…
  33. September arrived damp and cold…
  34. Feeling wilful and trapped…
  35. ā€œDo you reject Satan?ā€
  36. They all went back to Rosie’s and Tom’s…
  37. Robert sat at his desk in the library…
  38. Three times that afternoon…
  39. About the Author
  40. Copyright