The Unbelievable Lightness of Beans

Its 1971, Belfast. The "Troubles are building a head of steam. Martin Swallow aged 14 narrates in the non-politically correct language of the time, a year in his life. Through a series of closely observed and remembered tall tales we meet the extended dysfunctional Swallow family, relations and friends. Splattered with Northern Irish black humour and set against the background of the Northern Irish State falling into anarchy, Martin recounts with fondness and a certain naivety, the...
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Its 1971, Belfast. The "Troubles are building a head of steam. Martin Swallow aged 14 narrates in the non-politically correct language of the time, a year in his life. Through a series of closely observed and remembered tall tales we meet the extended dysfunctional Swallow family, relations and friends. Splattered with Northern Irish black humour and set against the background of the Northern Irish State falling into anarchy, Martin recounts with fondness and a certain naivety, the tall tales of his grandad, the intellectual ramblings of his father, the shallow piety of his mother. No one is spared in this satirical, acerbic, often chilling observation of early adolescence spent among religious bigotry and intolerance gone mad. Religion and Politics: Green and Orange are shredded through the jaundiced and often prophetic observations of his grandad and father.