Frances Creighton

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>Unable to cope with the death of his girlfriend Londoner Michael Roberts tries to find comfort in memories of another time and another place when he was in love for the first time.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>But that first time was as a schoolboy in Belfast at the start of The Troubles in the late 1960s and in a culture dominated by divides that weren't just sectarian.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>To his surprise and increasing anguish his memories-long buried-prove elusive so that finding out what had really happened and why it got suppressed becomes more and more of an obsession.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>As Michael gradually uncovers forgotten truths he starts to learn something that challenges everything he ever knew about himself and the person he has become.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>Frances Creighton: Found and Lost </em><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>is a deeply felt first novel that conveys the pain of late adolescence in a community where school and religion add more layers of cruelty to the underlying instability of daily life and Northern Irish politics.</span></p>