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Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told

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Part human comedy and part mystery, Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told is an enthralling, masterful story about what holds a village together and what keeps people apart. When journalist Patrick Bracken returns to Gohen, the Irish village where he was born, he knows the eyes of the townspeople are on him. He has come home to investigate two deaths that happened decades earlier when he was a child, deaths that were ruled accidental. But Patrick knows - and believes the whole town knows - they were murders. He knows because he and his best friend Mikey Lamb were witnesses.

And so Patrick goes to see 80-year-old Sam Howard, the lawyer who conducted the inquest into the death of missionary priest Jarlath Coughlin. As he questions Sam and Sam's vibrant, loving, gossipy wife Elsie, he seeks acknowledgment of a cover-up and an explanation of why the Protestant establishment would help conceal a crime among Catholics. During their give-and-take - about this and the nearly simultaneous shotgun death of Lawrence Gorman (aka Doul Yank) - what emerges from their collective memories are a pungent, wry portrait of village life in Ireland and a tangle of human relationships, some twisted and some that show our better side.

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What’s not to like. I loved all of the characters for their depth and humour. I’m unsure if it was my tech or the recording itself but there were a lot of breaks in the recording. Recording aside it was a brilliant performance that brought all the characters to life.

Warm and funny with a bit of crime drama.

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Funny, wry and affecting depiction of Irish rural life in 1951 with a gentle mystery, beautifully read.

Loved it!

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I did get a bit confused with the going back and forth, I enjoyed it but the story was slow. I enjoyed the writing and the humour. Some little gems of quotes too!

Bit slow for me

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The story was boring and repetitive. Descriptions good as was the narrator but I nearly gave up on it

Good narration

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Upon scanning reviews I was slow to listen to this, the title also did nothing to arouse my interest. Obviously I ignored both or I wouldn’t be typing a review. I feel you need to have a bit of Irish in you, or a strong interest in old Ireland, The narrator was so good portraying the different characters. I felt Iike I was a ghost looking on at the various scenes developing. Ireland 1951, the struggles of country life. Very good book.

I think Eamonn Kelly would have enjoyed this

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