Seamus Fitzgibbon

This book is an easy read, uncomplicated, no "big words" ( Leaving Cert level) . 85% is about a everyday family life through State control on Society - Roadblocks, Identity checks, Unexplained Detentions / a Death - nothing special or new, just hum-drum of coping. 15% is about State coercive controls - no edge-of-chair stuff. Ending - - Resolved / Unresolved / Contemplative ?? Prosaic style of writing - Uni English Graduate standard - Deserving winner ??