Life is a Winding Journey

"Pete Duffy, the natural heir to John B. Keane and Frank O' Connor and

the people's poet, completes his trilogy in magnificent style with Life is a

Winding Journey. Full of humour and pathos, and packed with zany and

compulsively readable characters, these stories will provide mind-trips to

anyone of a certain age, while younger readers will find no better flavour

of the city anywhere in all of literature. The musicians' ear, is as usual fully

employed, and the voice within these tales is rough-hewn and condensed.

In bringing Cork's bygone era to bristling and visceral life, Pete Duffy has

produced one of the year's undeniable must-reads. A treasure!"