The Law of Dreams
First published 2006
Reception
- 2006 Shortlist
About the book
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Ireland, 1846. A boy on a life-changing journey which lives in the mind long after the final page. It is 1846, the height of the Great Hunger, and young Fergus is forced to grow up fast. Following the destruction of his home, he loses not only his family but everything he has ever loved. So begins an epic journey from innocence to experience that takes him from the west coast of Ireland to the docks and bordellos of Liverpool, and across the Atlantic. Along his journey he will meet bandit chiefs and railway navvies, ‘pearl boys’ and daring girls, and the willful Molly, who will teach him the ways of the world.
Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2006 shortlist
Inside
Kenneth J. Harvey
De Niro’s Game
Rawi Hage
Lost Girls and Love Hotels
Catherine Hanrahan
The Other Side of the Bridge
Mary Lawson
Catalogue record
Steerforth Press · 394 pages
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Pages
- 394
Full recordClose
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Pages
- 394
- Author
- Behrens, Peter
- Statement
- The Law of Dreams / Peter Behrens.
- Records
- Open Library