Ten years later a film crew arrives to investigate wha did kill Nessa and Henry is keen to clear his name. Switching between the past and the present, the story explores the events leading up to the murder and the lingering fallout ten years later, as a documentary crew arrives on the island to lift the lid on the families involved.

It was their house where the murder took place; their loud, drug and alcohol fuelled party that silenced Nessa’s last breath. His family’s establishment of the artists’ retreat and commercialisation of the island’s heritage for tourism creates an uncomfortable power dynamic between the Kinsella family and the islanders. We need your consent to load this rte-player content We use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity.He was allowed to have aged within the last ten years, but for her to have done so was a crime against humanity') to blaming the wife when a husband has an affair. On the day of Henry and Keelin Kinsella's wild party at their big house a violent storm engulfed the island of Inisrun, cutting it off from the mainland. Just like Louise, I listened to West Cork podcast last year and was very impressed at how i nvestigative journalist, Sam Bungey, and documentarian, Jennifer Forde conveyed the impact that Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder had on the small community. Science suggests that life, including intelligent life, could have appeared in many places in the galaxy. With sensitivity and clever plotting the author explores themes of control, self esteem and the secrecy that can exist in family relationships and wraps it up in a beautifully crafted and descriptively haunting psychological thriller.

Once again, the book is spot on in relation to the (not so) subtle ways misogyny plays out in our media and cultural modes of thinking from gendered ageing and appearance ('there were no comments about Henry's appearance, she noticed.The premise of the book seems simple: two documentary makers come to the (fictional) island of Inis Rún off the cost of Cork, to make a documentary about the murder of Nessa Crowley, in hopes to find out who done it and/or gain closure for the family. Apparently a fortune teller had predicted that her husband would only have daughters so therefore his birth proved that Keelin had been unfaithful to him. After The Silence is a claustrophobic, tension fuelled novel from Louise O'Neill who as ever shows a huge amount of insight about the inner turmoil of women everywhere. The Tandem Collective question cards really got me thinking and I thought they were very well thought out. If not for the mere fact that I struggled to reach 20% before chucking it in through sheer boredom and for want of something far more thrilling.