Dooneen by Keith Ridgway

An allusive and absurd new book from one of Ireland's greatest contemporary novelists.

Join us for a conversation with Keith Ridgway, to celebrate his new novel, a brilliant and inventive story about dreams and love, the political and the personal, and what occurs when one world ends and the next begins. He will be in conversation with Cressida Leyshon, followed by a signing.

The astonishing Irish literary magician Keith Ridgway pulls from his hat the 21st-century’s Great Dublin Novel.

Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that—there are no cars; there are moving footpaths; there is no church; everything seems quite queer. Home by invitation, he has arrived in a Dublin that is alive with song, with rumor, with tunnels, with ghosts, and with an unmistakable sense of insurgency. In this suspiciously timeless city that breathes an old revolutionary air, Mew fiercely misses his beloved Mootie, back home in London. An unraveling, an impossibility, a gathering of voices, and a single dream, Dooneen is the layered, allusive and wildly original new novel from Keith Ridgway, “one of Ireland’s best writers, in a country with no shortage of them” (The Times).