'It's just something else in disguise. Sex or loneliness or ambition or boredom . . .'
Love for Harry Moore will be forever linked with Marie, the beautiful girl from Alsace. Ever since his magical teenage encounter with her in a tiny holiday resort in Donegal, it has never lived up to his expectations.
Thirty years later, Harry, middle-aged, but not quite disillusioned, travels to Strasbourg to take up the search for Marie and the innocence and longings of his youth.
'Trains & Boats & Planes' is a haunting and evocative debut novel grappling with memory, conflict and tragedy and coming of age issues that may in Harry's case, never be resolved.
