Photographs and Souvenirs

Still in the twilight of her beauty but drained of love for her alcoholic husband Stella Ryan falls into a trap of deliverance set by a coarse but young and handsome opportunist while her two boys Lou and Joe missing the father they adore befriend a combat vet who secretly tormented by his role in the war against the Japanese in the South Pacific enters their lives on a mission to protect them from the predator he suspects is out to trade their mothers life for her money.Of Photographs and Souvenirs Billy OCallaghan (Irish Book Award winner 2013; book critic/reviewer Irish Examiner) has written: Patrick Leahys Photographs and Souvenirs is among the finest achievements Ive read in recent years a gripping and beautifully nuanced story of a family in deepest turmoil. The prose is quiet and then in moments breathlessly raw; the story delivered in vivid tensile prose is utterly compelling and exposes with an almost surgical precision the deepest and most complex aspects of human interaction. Patrick Leahy is a remarkably gifted writer and this novel deserves a wide enthusiastic audience.- Billy OCallaghan author of the Irish Book Award-winning The Things We Lose the Things We Leave Behind