Fallen Elaine Whitesides

Fallen Elaine WhitesidesWhen Michael Connolly was a child in the 1970s, his mother told him about all the things that happened to her in that place. All that the nuns had done. The doctors encouraged her to talk, and talk she did. She even tried to tell the public. She wrote letters to the newspapers. She made signs and picketed Mass. The good pious parishioners silenced her. The doctors told her she was delusional. Her husband didn't post her letters. Her son didn't believe

But this bag did not contain photographic equipment

especially the bloody coup of February 1963

the main streets

sometimes sexual

But involvement with a revival church and the favour of Shepherd John

face up to her own mortality

Saladin brings the caliphate of Al-`Adid and the Fatimids to a close

hotel cleaner

or been moved more generally by the campaign

month after month

If listening is a central theme of this collection

He has no idea of the nightmare