I am beyond excited to announce that my Monthly Read for June is the incredible Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe. Telling the true story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, it’s a first-class ‘non-fiction novel’.
The book interlaces the stories of Jean McConville – a young mother and widow who was abducted in front of her children – and Dolours Price – the first woman frontline fighter in the IRA – exposing the lives of both victims and perpetrators in the conflict.
Nearly 4,000 people were killed in the Troubles, between the late 1960s and the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement. Keefe investigates the deep tensions between Catholics and Protestants, paramilitaries and the British armed forces that led to the conflict. I was gripped from the first page, and I know you will be too.
Dua x
