Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told
A Novel
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Jack Reynolds
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By:
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Tom Phelan
About this listen
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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- mark ellis
- 05-11-21
Loved it!
Funny, wry and affecting depiction of Irish rural life in 1951 with a gentle mystery, beautifully read.
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- Selkie
- 24-08-22
Warm, entertaining and life affirming with an Irish lit
A meander through the morals of public and private life, with a warm heart and a keen eye. Lots of humour and well observed characters.
The performers voice is gorgeous, his rich Irish accent brings the dialect alive.
A lovely listen
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-08-22
Great Narrating, Funny Characters, Ok story
Meandering story of a tiny Irish village community and their tyrants. The Narration was great and the Characters are very memorable, unique and funny.
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- Henry Iles
- 26-08-23
Fantastic
I loved this book, the reading matches the prose, both brilliant. It made me reflect on village life, how it was, how it’s changed, and made me laugh out loud. Have already recommended to my friends.
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- C. A. Harfleet
- 28-05-23
Loved this book.
I am delighted to have discovered this author. This book was beautifully written and read. With a depth of understanding of people. I shall now look for more by this author.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-02-24
Poor recording; below-par performer
The quality of the recording is not great. The performer sounds, at times, robotic. Not a great listen, to be honest. Well-crafted story, though.
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- Benita Lenard
- 10-02-24
Good read
I really enjoyed this book, storyline revolves around a community in Ireland, life’s hardship mixed with great Irish humour.
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- Mark Weeks
- 27-04-22
loved it
wonderful. I laughed aloud. good characters great pace I will seek more from this author.. long drive next week will listen to it again on the journey with my wife. she will love it!!!
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- Demelza Harris
- 01-05-22
A bit of a slow story but still a page turner.
No spoilers.
A story about lawyer coming to terms with his decisions of the past.
The gentle voice of the narration suited this slow unfurling of the truth about two deaths that occurred with a week in a small Irish village.
Its not until the end it is made clear who the mushroom pickers were.
The characters are well written ,the everyday details of the squalor endured by farming community in the 1950’s really got under my skin.
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- Mrs Linda Irvine
- 20-10-22
Best Murder Investigstion ever
Loved loved loved
Laughed myself silly
Stunned by the hardship ordinary folks endured.
A must read
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