Roddy Doyle: The Barrytown Trilogy [2013] paperback Condition:Very Good the clutching fingers of terror

the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck

Emma and their peculiar friends

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while Elinor suffers her own private heartbreak but conceals her true feelings

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Roddy Doyle: The Barrytown Trilogy [2013] paperback Condition:Very Good the clutching fingers of terrorHere, in one volume, are Roddy Doyle's three acclaimed novels about the Rabbitte family from Barrytown, Dublin. In them we follow the rapid rise of Jimmy Rabbitte's soul band, the Commitments, and their equally rapid fall; Sharon Rabbitte's attempts to keep the identity of her unborn child's father a secret, amid intense speculation from her family and friends; and the fortunes of the travelling fish 'n' chips van that Jimmy Rabbitte Sr and his friend