The release date for the English version of 'Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland' by
Patrick Radden Keefe is Feb 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
When masked intruders removed thirty-eight-year-old Jean McConville—a mother of ten—from her Belfast house in December 1972, her kids clung to her knees. They didn't see her once again. One of the most well-known incidents of the violent conflict known as The Troubles was her kidnapping. The neighbourhood was aware that the I.R.A. was to blame. However, nobody would talk about it in a paranoid and fearful atmosphere. A pair of human bones was found on a beach in 2003, five years after an agreement brought an uneasy calm to Northern Ireland. With so many kids, McConville had always had a blue safety pin accessible for shredded garments or diapers, so her kids knew it was their mother when they heard it was fastened to the frock.
In his gripping book on the bloody struggle in Northern Ireland and its aftermath, Patrick Radden Keefe begins with the McConville case and tells the story of a community torn apart by a vicious guerrilla war, the effects of which have never been fully considered. People like the McConville children were not the only ones affected by the horrific bloodshed; I.R.A. members, who were unhappy over a peace that fell far short of their dream of a united Ireland, were also deeply hurt, questioning whether their deaths were really simply acts of ordinary murder rather than acts of war.
Patrick Radden Keefe crafts a complex story about a well-known murder in Northern Ireland and its terrible aftermath.