Sudden Times

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 341, [1]. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

Signed by the Author to title-page.

A powerful psychological thriller set in the world of protection rackets and casual labour of London's building sites, narrated by an unreliable narrator. Often spoken of as "Ireland's finest living novelist" by his Irish literary contemporaries, Healy's relatively low public profile prevented him from being accorded the national recognition he deserved during his lifetime.

"Sudden Times is the simplest, perhaps the most directly powerful of Dermot Healy's extraordinary novels. Comic and brutal, it has all the excitement of a page-turner and the immediacy of a poem." –Neil Jordan