Consequences Of The Heart - Softcover

PRAISE FOR PETER CUNNINGHAM:   “A writer of great gifts” - Barry Unsworth, Booker Prize winner   “Cunningham’s descriptive writing is as superb as his characterization.” - Sue Leonard, "Irish Examiner"   “... uncompromising in his commitment to the plain storytelling of old-fashioned romance and the effect is something like that of an old-fashioned movie that is apparently uncomplicated but yet becomes a classic.” - John Kenny, "The Irish Times"      

PRAISE FOR PETER CUNNINGHAM: "A writer of great gifts" - Barry Unsworth, Booker Prize winner "Cunningham's descriptive writing is as superb as his characterization." - Sue Leonard, "Irish Examiner" .".. uncompromising in his commitment to the plain storytelling of old-fashioned romance and the effect is something like that of an old-fashioned movie that is apparently uncomplicated but yet becomes a classic." - John Kenny, "The Irish Times"

"A writer of great gifts" - Barry Unsworth, Booker Prize winner

"Cunningham's descriptive writing is as superb as his characterization." - Sue Leonard, "Irish Examiner" .".. uncompromising in his commitment to the plain storytelling of old-fashioned romance and the effect is something like that of an old-fashioned movie that is apparently uncomplicated but yet becomes a classic." - John Kenny, "The Irish Times" " In a narrative that spans more than 60 years in the lives of its characters, Irish author Cunningham examines a Jules-and-Jim-type love affair as well as a mysterious incident from D-Day....A lovingly detailed examination of 20th-century Anglo-Irish culture as well as a dissection of personal relationships." - Kirkus

Peter Cunningham grew up in Waterford, the city on which Monument, the town in Consequences of the Heart is based. His previous work includes The Sea andthe Silence (Gemma 2010), and a number of thrillers, written both under his own name and under pseudonyms. His novels include Who Trespass Against Us (London, 1993); Tapes of the River Delta (London, 1995); and Love in One Edition (London, 2001); Taoiseach (London, 2004); and Capital Sins (Dublin, 2010). Peter Cunningham is a member of Aosdana, the Irish Academy of Letters.