![]() ![]() ![]() “Sometimes,” we are told, Fintan “feels he can almost hear time rushing past him it is like a kind of unholy wind”. In One by One in the Darkness (1996), the domestic peace of a kitchen is torn apart by murder and in Time Present and Time Past (2013), the protagonist Fintan is moved by fear to halt an ordinary family dinner for a moment, to capture the experience of familial togetherness before it vanishes. In Hidden Symptoms (1986), Madden’s first novel, the protagonist Theresa is aware that violence - in the form of her brother Francis’s death in a sectarian attack - has dealt a fundamental blow to her sense of belonging. Her characters reflect on what home can mean, consider how the security of home can be destroyed and rebuilt, explore symbols of home and belonging. ![]() The matter of home is threaded through all of Deirdre Madden’s novels. ![]()
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