White Spirits

Traumatised by a cot death a woman appreciates the isolation of lockdown;A father who walked out on his family returns for his daughter’s wedding;A ‘trophy wife’ must decide how to deal with the hostility of her stepson;A loner who was bullied in school develops a sinister online identity;Teenagers resolve to take action against a local refugee centre. In this latest collection of short fiction - by turns edgy and darkly humorous - award-winning author David Butler examines the many aspects of what it means to be Irish in a world where personal identity is increasingly under pressure.