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Secrets & Other Stories
Blackstaff Press/Vintage (1977)

Married love, male friendship, a small boy intruding upon secret adult grief, a husband contemplating infidelity - in these wonderful stories Bernard MacLaverty catches his characters at moments of epiphany, when ordinary life is set alight with sudden knowledge, memory, regret or desire.

Contains:

The Exercise
A Rat and some Renovations
St Paul Could Hit the Nail on the Head
A Happy Birthday
Secrets
The Miraculous Candidate
Between Two Shores
Umberto Verdi, Chimney Sweep
Where the Tides Meet
Hugo
A Pornographer Woos
A Present for Christmas
Anodyne
The Bull with the Hard Hat
The Deep End