shrinking receding infinity that the author crosses to reach the mind of her beloved Siobhán.
Written with style, skill, humour and no little passion, Scourged brings home the bitter sweet truth that to live is to love and to love is to lose. Declan Dempsey
Scourged is that most rare and wonderful creature, a book that is both entertaining and
honest - like David Sederis or Joan Didion before her, Dooley Mahon delves deep into the
seam of the everyday, mining the ore of tragedy and comedy, shining a single head lamp as she digs, until the unsuspecting reader, laughed and cried out, is forced to go for a lie down. Eoin Colfer
Scourged
The twin narratives serve to illuminate and mirror each other, in the process creating a
Scourged is a complex and experimental work MDM employs simple but effective and at times brave techniques in identifying the voices in a novel that is simultaneously harrowing and
hilarious - In its literary ambition this volume has the substance to stand out as a major success, it also contains all the elements needed to be a bestseller. It deserves this
achievement because it is hugely important - It is flawed at times, but perhaps within that very fact, lies its greatness. Dominic Williams
who created the One Woman Show - Shellshock. She was awarded the Dylan Thomas Literary Residency in Sweden in 2014. She lives in Wexford with her dogs. www.random mayhem/shellakeypookey.blogspot.com
Michelle Dooley Mahon
Michelle Dooley Mahon is a Writer / Performer
shrinking receding infinity that the author crosses to reach the mind of her beloved Siobhán.
Written with style, skill, humour and no little passion, Scourged brings home the bitter sweet truth that to live is to love and to love is to lose. Declan Dempsey
Scourged is that most rare and wonderful creature, a book that is both entertaining and
honest - like David Sederis or Joan Didion before her, Dooley Mahon delves deep into the
seam of the everyday, mining the ore of tragedy and comedy, shining a single head lamp as she digs, until the unsuspecting reader, laughed and cried out, is forced to go for a lie down. Eoin Colfer
Scourged
The twin narratives serve to illuminate and mirror each other, in the process creating a
Scourged is a complex and experimental work MDM employs simple but effective and at times brave techniques in identifying the voices in a novel that is simultaneously harrowing and
hilarious - In its literary ambition this volume has the substance to stand out as a major success, it also contains all the elements needed to be a bestseller. It deserves this
achievement because it is hugely important - It is flawed at times, but perhaps within that very fact, lies its greatness. Dominic Williams
who created the One Woman Show - Shellshock. She was awarded the Dylan Thomas Literary Residency in Sweden in 2014. She lives in Wexford with her dogs. www.random mayhem/shellakeypookey.blogspot.com
Michelle Dooley Mahon
Michelle Dooley Mahon is a Writer / Performer