The third part of a great educational novel whose hero tries to start a new life after a tumultuous youth. Ryan Cusack, orphaned by his Italian mother and musician, and brutalized by his alcoholic father.
He found refuge in sex and in the arms of Karine D'Arcy, a young bourgeois woman whose parents had little understanding of the passion for this lost proletarian from Cork in the 2010s. At the end of the book, he managed to reach Berlin, then Seoul, escaping Jimmy's revenge, and leaving the arms with whom he had fathered a child. Heresies by Lisa McInerney, published by Bloomsbury, £16.99, is out now. For more information, visit the author's website: http://www.bloomsburys.co.uk/books/glorious-heresies-by-lisa-m-inerney-novel-part-3-the-law-of-revelation.