When the ultimate tragedy strikes Joss’s family, she needs a fresh start and moves to Scotland. But that being said, to me, the heroine’s actions and denial of their feelings for each other brought the story down for me. I still did like the story a lot, but the heroine’s issues and reluctance to commit to the relationship just prevented me from connecting more strongly with the story than I otherwise might have. I feel pretty torn about how to rate this book. And always glad to be coming to Liberty Hall with its links to Larkin and Connolly…”ĭetails of the Robert Tressell festival are available at tressellfestival.ie.“ I know you love me, Jocelyn, because there’s no fucking way I can be this much in love with you, and not have you feel the same way. “So I’m glad to be coming over and to be speaking at an event to celebrate Robert Noonan and his book. People are not getting a square deal for their work. And it’s more and more the case in Europe, I think, and across the world. That’s the case in America, it’s the case in Ireland and Britain. And exploitation is the mode of operation for an awful lot of people in our society. Profit is still available to those that are in control. “So even though we’re in a modern context, these issues at heart are still there. I think that’s really relevant because that in-work poverty has returned certainly in Britain but I think in Ireland too with the fairly low wages, the soaring costs of housing and food, the utility bills and all the rest of it. “He’s saying to his fellow workers, ‘we can change the system but first of all, we’ve got to understand it’. And it’s about that idea that you can work as hard as you like but the world is stacked against you because of the system.
“He is speaking through the voice of the character Frank Owen, who is enduring in-work poverty and it’s set in a world before the welfare state, benefits and all the rest of it, that we have the privilege of enjoying if we need it.
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