Yes, I’m all excited: Kieron Connolly is coming to “my” store, the American Book Center in The Hague, The Netherlands! He will be with us on Friday October 8th to participate in our Open Mike Night, where he will read from his latest book “Harold” and on Saturday October 9th to give a workshop and have a book signing afterward. So, should you be in the neighbourhood, be sure to come by.
It is Dublin, it is Tuesday and for Harold, Paul, Donald and Mickey it is a different Tuesday than usual. A strange breeze is blowing over the river Liffey. A breeze that seems to have an effect on time, memories, hope and the normal order of life. Few people notice, but the aforementioned four do and they will have a Tuesday they will never forget, or remember. Meet Harold…
Paul has lost his Jenny, Mary lost her David. Two years along the road they both are struggling with their loss still. How to move on when you lost your soulmate, your reason for living? What to do if you want to live in reality, but can’t see it, being stuck in the past, in dreams you don’t want to dream? You will breath in and out, but without the notion you’re doing so. You talk to your best friends, who hate to see you like that and are trying with all their might to make you understand you really have to start living again. But how? Paul and Mary have a mission: they have to stop living in the past and take on the reality of the present. And they need each other to do that, somehow they know, they knew all along, but how to meet when you still have Jenny and David to deal with? What then?
Paul Conroy is a writer. A writer with a writers block and only the first line of his new book: There is a house.
He writes about life, love, friends, boyfriends of friends, being a father, being a friend, being a terrible dancer, making a complete idiot of himself, his sanity, his wallflower and — not unimportant — about how he can’t write, although his agent and longtime friend Tom O’Brien tries to get him from page one to two.
