Belios Foyle, Órfhlaith €12.99 - now €6.49 save €6.50 ISBN: 1 84351 067 7 Format: Size: Publication Date: March 2005 Physical Copy (supplied by Lilliput Press) Add to Basket View Shopping Basket

Narrator Noah Gilmore is researching the biography of William Belios, an ex-missionary and once famous photographer, and spends a week in his household at Oughterard, Co. Galway. Belios is Gilmore's nemesis, his quarry, mirroring his own desires and uncertainties, as he determines to unearth family secrets: the dead wife buried in Africa and the blighted lives of three grown-up children. The eldest Medbh, an erotic illustrator, guides Gilmore down the labyrinth. Their futures demand an erasure of a troubled past as its layers are unpeeled and its perverse roots become exposed.

This haunting tale concerns the unravelling of private lives; it offers a world in which the undertow of the imagination makes the reader complicit in its workings. Belios is a startlingly mature and exciting début.

ÓRFHLAITH FOYLE was born in Nigeria to Irish missionary parents and lived in Kenya and Malawi before emigrating to Australia, where she received a Bachelor in Humanities. She travelled to Russia and Israel and taught in London's East End for two years before returning to Ireland to work as a freelance journalist and edit a community magazine. She has been widely published in various literary journals and in a forthcoming Arlen House anthology of western women writers.
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