He took advantage of this to travel in Greece and Italy. I wanted to be free." After school he worked as a clerk at Aer Lingus which allowed him to travel at deeply-discounted rates. I regret not taking that four years of getting drunk and falling in love. Banville has described this as "A great mistake. Despite having intended to be a painter and an architect he did not attend university. His sister Vonnie Banville-Evans has written both a children's novel and a reminiscence of growing up in Wexford.Įducated at a Christian Brothers' school and at St Peter's College in Wexford. He is the youngest of three siblings his older brother Vincent is also a novelist and has written under the name Vincent Lawrence as well as his own. His father worked in a garage and died when Banville was in his early thirties his mother was a housewife. Quirke is a fascinating and subtly drawn hero, Christine Falls is a classic tale of suspense, and Benjamin Black’s debut marks him as a true master of the form.īanville was born in Wexford, Ireland. Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, the first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville’s fiction to a thrilling, atmospheric crime story. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidious-and very well-guarded-secrets of Dublin’s high Catholic society, among them members of his own family. It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls.
Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpse-and concealing the cause of death.
One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. It’s not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic society
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