This is a literary novel tracing the life of an Irish boy, Brendan Ryan, through various episodes, from birth to his present age of twenty-four.
The author, Joe ward, was born in Limerick, Ireland on the 4th January 1949 into a poor rural family. He is one of ten children. When he was four years old he spent nearly three years in the infamous Glin Industrial School (mentioned in Pat McCourt's book Angela's Ashes). Mother and four children escaped the clutches of the Catholic church travelling to England in 1956. Joe did not waste the opportunity given him. By the time he was twenty-five he had obtained a first class honours degree in Mathematics and a PhD specializing in General Relativity. He is now retired following nearly forty years as a Senior Lecturer in the mathematics department of Loughborough University.
