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After the publication of his most recent book, Alex Smyth receives a trout fly in the mail at his home address in rural Canada - with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear in him that he is being stalked, and it awakens deeply buried, inchoate memories from his childhood in Ireland, a time before he was old enough to understand the adult world around him. It also evokes the guilt that he may have murdered a man, a feeling so strong it changes him and threatens his marriage. Soon, in hopes of solving the mysteries that surround him, Alex feels that he has no choice but to return home to Ireland and to his estranged father. A novel of great literary beauty that is structured as a tense psychological thriller, The Trout is a tale of predators and prey, deception, and the hidden crimes that can shape a life.



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Peter Cunningham

Peter Cunningham is an Irish novelist. He grew up in Waterford. His first novel,'Noble Lord', was a thriller, written under the pseudonym, Peter Lauder. In 2003, 'The Taoiseach', dealt with current Irish political events, based on the life of Irish premier Charles Haughey. The novel was a bestseller and is currently in development as a 6-part mini-series for television.In 2010, a satirical novel dealing with the collapse of Ireland's economy, 'Capital Sins', was published. His novel, 'The Sea and the Silence' was awarded the Prix de l'Europe in 2013. 'The Trout', published in 2016, was described by the New York Times as a novel written 'with a deftness and grace that summon the truth from the depths of the past.'In 2017, 'Acts of Allegiance' was awarded a starred review from Publishers Weekly and described as 'remarkable'. The novel has been nominated for the Dublin Literary International Award 2019.Cunningham novels are said to fuse political material with psychological realism and a nascent, lyrical sensitivity to place. in this way he has won an international reputation as a writer of highly crafted plots and enigmatic dreaminess. Peter Cunningham is a member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of arts and letters, and lives in County Kildare, Ireland.



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