Mr Hoo

The latest short story collection from award-winning writer John O'Donnell. Loneliness, vengeance, sorrow and desire are among the themes featuring in these compelling stories of schemers and survivors: a gullible bird-lover, a woman seeking revenge against an author, a brooding survivor of the Titanic, a young murderer trying to cheat the gallows. Here are almost-winners and not-quite losers, a grieving father and a desperate mother, an unhappy judge and a troubled client. Love and loss, redemption and remorse, yearning and heartbreak; in clear incisive language these exhilarating stories movingly examine the human conditionl