Folly Lane - a novel

PRE ORDER Damian Smyth's debut novel here Hardcover Edition Belfast Reading | NO ALIBIS Bookstore Wednesday September 9th @ 6.00pm Folly Lane - a novel, is a biographic novel skilfully weaving its weft of narratives and private text, all drawn from the public world amongst the warp of a modern world in flux, tethered by histories of order chaos and failure. The novel reaches from imperial Rome to 21st century Ireland. Folly Lane, a place in Downpatrick, a ‘street’, is a cul-de-sac & pathway, a side road - never a thoroughfare, but a misstep- so maybe a metaphor & a fiction. Nothing there is owned, not even ‘autobiography’ where ‘i’ is a population of multiple selves, every ampersand reveals another diorama & even formulaic utterances – prayers, invocations, testimonies, mission statements, visions, strategies reveal mesmerising, ‘enchanting’ patterns of expression. Memorable & telling - moreover, useful. Within this fiction of self we discover stories, narratives, messages & lessons underpinned by irony, hyperbole & fable in a miasma of satire, & Lord knows, even if we don’t look for one, there is inevitably a moral at work… & ISBN 9781911132905 Hardback: 179pp