One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of 'Southie', the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart. In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. She smiles, but her eyes shine with agony. 'It is if you can find the small blessings.' New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River - an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston's history. a resonant, unflinching story written by a novelist who is simply one of the best around' Gillian Flynn ' Small Mercies is thought-provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment' Stephen King Lehane (who was a writer on The Wire) provides top-notch dialogue, an absorbing mystery and an evocation of a historical moment foreshadowing America's 21st-century ethnic divide' Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month 'At the heart of the book is a masterly psychological study of racism. 'You'll be lucky if you read a more engaging novel this year' The Times Thriller of the Month April 2023
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