COMING SOON
Below is the complete selection of titles by JCBarry.
Upcoming Book
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Blurb:
‘’He had heard of the Ireland of the thousand welcomes. He hadn’t come for that’’
Jean Deveaux is a French interpreter living a lonely life in Dublin. Through his work he meets people living on the edge of Irish society.
He feels like he is drifting. Until Veo comes back into his life that is- an old Roma associate who begs literally on his doorstep. When Veo asks him for help and to return the favour he owes him Jean is reluctantly drawn into a dark world, a Dublin underbelly which brings him to the brink.
Veo's niece Maria has disappeared whilst begging on the Dublin streets. The family have been to the police but no interpreter was provided and Jean is their only hope of liasing with the detective in charge of her case. He is their only hope of finding out what happened to her and trying to save her life. Jean didn't ask for this but he is drawn in. Drawn in by a desperate family, by the beauty of the missing girl, and by a haunting guilt from his past.
‘’He wanted to run from this place. He wanted to go home. Wherever that was’’
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Hard Borders - Coming Soon
Julianne is a housewife, living on the edge of social welfare Ireland, just trying to make ends meet until a mysterious nurse befriends and inspires her.
‘There's more to life than popping out babies. This is your time. You need to know what's going on in the world'.
But is her new friend all that she seems? After years of 'not seeing what was before her eyes' she wakes up to a world of activity going on around her that is both unnerving and very dangerous.
As events conspire, voices around her and constant money worries get in on her and she feels she is ‘slipping through the cracks...falling down, down and taking her family with her’’.
Lines become blurred. Her choices are not as clear cut as they seem. Are there really forces lurking in the shadows? How far will she go to the edge and can she save herself and her family?
​As Julieanne’s situation spirals we meet the desperate characters around her community who are struggling to survive life in a hidden Dublin rife with violence, poverty and addiction.
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