Darkly funny, shocking, heartwarming, brutal, manic, touching, emotional, and exciting - Ciarán West's fourth novel is many things, but it's certainly not a romance, in the traditional sense. Through the lenses of excess, addiction, psychosis, and worse, it tells the story of Tom - a man who has lost everything, is plagued by his demons, and in the grip of the compulsions over which he has no control. Comin ...Full description
Darkly funny, shocking, heartwarming, brutal, manic, touching, emotional, and exciting - Ciarán West's fourth novel is many things, but it's certainly not a romance, in the traditional sense. Through the lenses of excess, addiction, psychosis, and worse, it tells the story of Tom - a man who has lost everything, is plagued by his demons, and in the grip of the compulsions over which he has no control. Coming back home to a country he no longer recognises, his inevitable downward spiral is halted by a face from fifteen years before - a lost love that was never his to lose in the first place. A glimmer of hope that might be the one thing that can save him. She's the key to what could be a happy future for Tom, but only if he can put his past to rest for good. A Certain Romance is a book that you may find hard to describe to other people, but also one that you'll never forget.