This is an uncorrected proof copy.

Snow is falling all over Dublin. It is half an hour to the start of the New year. On the rooftop of 44 Seville Place, a ten-year-old boy clings to the steel pole of a television aerial. As his father urges him to turn the aerial towards England, the boy reaches up and, in that moment, pictures from a foreign place beam into their home and change their lives for ever.

So begins a compelling portrait of a Dublin family as they chart their way through the turbulent waters of the 1960s. From the first page we are drawn into their lives and their relationships, their triumphs and disasters. In exploring his past with honesty, humour and compassion. Peter Sheridan reveals the confused adolescent in us all and shows us an individual and a society on the cusp of profound change.

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