The Throats of Birds
Aoife Feeney
The Throats of Birds, a new satirical novel, imagines a future in which Ireland becomes the private property of an oligarch, Robert Kavanagh. His wife Elizabeth decides to kill him ‘before he kills us all’. She receives unexpected support from Toby, an actor and mimic whose surreal podcasts disrupt Robert’s fantasies of a purified Ireland.
When malign forces intervene Elizabeth isn’t sure whether she is a scapegoat who has lost everything – her children, her friends, her voice – or, worse, the beatified mother of the new nation she detests.
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Author: A native of Dublin, Aoife Feeney has lived much of her life in Wicklow and Galway. Since the publication of her first novel The Rule of War (2011) she divides her time between Ireland and France.
