This boy's heart

<p>John Creedon is a renowned storyteller. Following on from the sensational success of <em>An Irish Folklore Treasury</em>, here he seeks to capture the folklore of his own childhood.</p> <p><em>This Boy's Heart</em> is set in a city-centre household bursting with humanity, with a cast of a dozen children and another dozen adults, including beloved aunts, an American writer, an African doctor and a Scottish bookie. The streets outside are teeming with brewery horses, Christian Brothers, beat clubs, dance halls, a Turkish Delight shop -- and a pub where a child could sit up on a high stool and smoke his cigarette in peace. Summers are spent farmed out to friends and family in the countryside, with hilarious tales of donkey derbies and cow chases.</p> <p>Set in wildly contrasting worlds - from urban exotica to spacious meadows, from the classroom of fifty boys to the open road - these stories of friendship, fun, family and folklore take you on a heart-warming journey into an Irish childhood.</p> <p> </p> <p>'A thing of beauty. I adored it. Full of heart and warmth and humour, this is a book to lift your spirits.' <strong>Donal Ryan</strong></p>