Now and in the Hour of Our Death: A Novel of the Irish Troubles: 2 (Stories of the Irish Troubles 2)

Patrick Taylors Now and in the Hour of Our Death is a moving and compelling portrait of ordinary men and women caught up in a conflict not of their making and of the way the past holds onto us even as we try to move on into an uncertain future.. Nine years ago the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland tore apart two young lovers consuming their hopes and dreams and changing their lives forever. Now in 1983 Davy McCutcheon and Fiona Kavanagh find themselves worlds apart.. Davy once a bomb-maker for the Provisional IRA is serving a twenty-five-year sentence in a British prison. Having seen enough of death and violence he wants nothing more to do with the struggle that cost him his freedom and his love. But old loyalties die hard and despite himself Davy is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy on behalf of his fellow Provos . . . .. Meanwhile Fiona has forged a new life for herself in Vancouver British Columbia far away from the war-torn streets of Belfast. Now a vice-principal at a local elementary school she has a successful career good friends and a new man in her life. Yet she remains haunted by painful memories of her troubled homeland―and the love she left behind.