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Original Title:	Himself
ISBN:	1782118454 (ISBN13: 9781782118459)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Authors' Club Best First Novel Award Nominee for Shortlist (2017)

Himself Hardcover | Pages: 358 pages

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Title	:	Himself
Author	:	Jess Kidd
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 358 pages
Published	:	March 14th 2017 by Canongate Books
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Magical Realism. Fantasy. Cultural. Ireland. Historical. Historical Fiction

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A charming ne’er-do-well returns to his haunted Irish hometown to uncover the truth about his mother in this “supernaturally skilled debut” (Vanity Fair) and turns the town—and his life—upside down.

Having been abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, Mahony assumed all his life that his mother wanted nothing to do with him. That is, until one night in 1976 while drinking a pint at a Dublin pub, he receives an anonymous note implying that she may have been forced to give him up. Determined to find out what really happened, Mahony embarks on a pilgrimage back to his hometown, the rural village of Mulderrig. Neither he nor Mulderrig can possibly prepare for what’s in store…

From the moment he arrives, Mahony’s presence completely changes the village. Women fall all over themselves. The real and the fantastic are blurred. Chatty ghosts rise from their graves with secrets to tell, and local preacher Father Quinn will do anything to get rid of the slippery young man who is threatening the moral purity of his parish.

A spectacular new addition to the grand Irish storytelling tradition, Himself “is a darkly comic tale of murder, intrigue, haunting and illegitimacy…wickedly funny” (Daily Express).

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He sees dead people.Yowza! Yowza! Yowza!If ever a book could grab my attention right from the first page, it was this one!For a very long time, I have yearned for an author like Jess Kidd to appear: the ghosts of Dylan Thomas, Gabriel García Márquez and James Joyce must surely have come to roost in her beautiful, mischievous mind.This magical, vengeful story reconnected me with my Irishness and might possibly have brought my dear mother, Kathleen, scurrying to read it over my shoulder (she'd

This book is going straight onto my shelf of favourite reads. I think I will put it next to Lincoln in the Bardo because the ghosts inside their pages have so much in common, and because both books just struck a chord in me and made for such great reading.In Himself we meet Mahoney, 26 years old, charismatic, very good looking and able to charm even ghosts with just a wink. What he does to the female population of Mulderrig, a small town in County Mayo Ireland, is amazing:) I am pretty sure he

4.5 Magical and delightful, was not at all ready to leave this small Irish town nor these wonderful characters. Mahoney, raised in an orphanage, come to Murdering to uncover the truth about the young mother he never knew. He creates quite a stir with his Byronic good looks, sets hearts a quivering, but not all because many in this place are holding secrets and one is a murderer. He meets some amazing characters, willing to help him with his quest: the old Mrs., Cauley, who was quite a stage

Himself started off with a bang and kept me engaged until the very end!Abandoned in a Dublin orphanage as a baby, Mahony, now aged twenty-six, receives a letter left for him long ago that hints he might not have been abandoned after all. Returning to the remote coastal town of Mulderrig, in search of the raw truth about his mother, a profoundly complicated past rises and the local ghosts come out to greet him, giving the story an otherworldly spin. Jess Kidds rollicking debut is chock-full of

Things are all mysterious and magical in small town Ireland This book has flashes of The Sixth Sense with main character Mahoney (pronounced MAH-hinny by the narrator of my audiobook) who sees the dead, everywhere he goes. Unfortunately for him, the only ghost he really wants to see (his mother's), eludes him. Ghosts in this book are like cats - they don't come when they're called. They aren't particularly helpful. They don't uncover crucial clues or whisper murderers names, though their

In a forest dark and deep, the murmuring trees keep their own counsel.  They know everything, as do the bees.  Mulderrig, Ireland.  Where sleep conjures dreams of screaming eels and snapping dentures.  Beware of spiteful wells, flying spiders, and meddlesome winds.  Note the creeping shadow who has a taste for religious paraphernalia.  You are about to enter a world of tricky knickers and wigs that tilt askew at alarming angles.  'Be still.  The dead are drawing in.'  The dead, wanting to be

I almost didnt make it past the first sentence of this book, but I am glad I did. The prologue is, fortunately, mercifully short and with a bit of magical realism at the end, it poses the questions: Where did he go? What happened to him and his family? The rest of the book sets out to answer those questions.Mahoney is on a quest, and his destination is the village of Mulderrig in Ireland. He is also a sensitive, so he sees things most other folks dont see, where sometimes the details come vivid