I Hear You
by Paul McVeigh
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Pub Date Mar 03 2025 | Archive Date Mar 07 2025
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Synopsis
Irish Times: Books to Look Out for in 2025
This collection of stories, written especially for BBC Radio 4, includes a ten-part sequence: ‘The Circus’, set around Cliftonville Circus, where five roads meet in North Belfast.
It’s five minutes from the nationalist Troubles flashpoint of Ardoyne, where Paul grew up. It’s close to Holy Cross Girls’ School, where protests targeting primary school children drew international attention. The Circus is situated in the poorest part of the Belfast – it is also the most divided.
Each road leads to a different area – a different class – a different religion. The Circus explores where old Belfast clashes with the new around acceptance, change, class and diversity. But this is 2024 and a fresh energy exists.
Other stories include ‘Tickles’, a story about a man visiting his mother in a dementia ward where he finds he is the one who had forgotten important things; ‘Cuckoo’, about a man’s collapse and surgery – where he feels something more sinister has happened to him; and ‘Daddy Christmas’, where a gay man writes a letter to the son he never had.
A Note From the Publisher
A collection of short stories written especially for BBC Radio 4, including a ten-part linked short story series for those who like longer works. Set in present-day Belfast, the stories take a look at how the past is there, just beneath the surface, and are all told with the empathy and humour of McVeigh’s award-wining novel The Good Son.
Advance Praise
‘These moving short stories are brave, honest, raw and funny, doing what fiction does best, showing us the lives of others and in so doing showing us ourselves. Wonderful.’ —Kit de Waal
‘From a son paring the bunions on his mother’s feet to a man’s soul getting sealed out of his body, and culminating in a deft interlinked cycle, the stories of I Hear You are warm, frank and unsentimental, bursting with character and idiosyncratic detail, written with Paul McVeigh’s characteristic geniality and Belfast wit.’ —Lucy Caldwell
Marketing Plan
Review coverage: Big Issue, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Observer, Telegraph, Irish Times, Sunday Times • Events include: Launches at No Alibis Bookstore, Belfast Book Festival • National and Regional select press features: Esquire, Guardian Podcast, Shortlist, Metro • Broadcast opportunities: Monocle, Talk Radio, Front Row.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781784633448 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 128 |
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