Bad Blood
27 March 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm Tóibín walked along the border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, and a report on ordinary life and the legacy of history in a bleak and desolate landscape.
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Details
27 March 2025208 pages
9781035054862Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Tóibín writes prose of a heart-breaking beauty.Daily Telegraph
Tóibín has the narrative poise of Brian Moore and the patient eye for domestic detail of John McGahern, but he is very much his own man.Observer
High-class reportage . . . Tóibín was conscientious about talking to real people, not just “names” with a good line in TV chat, and went to see and hear and sense things at a local, grassroots level.Irish Times
