IT IS 1976. Sean Farrell has been mistakenly linked by the State to IRA activity and Emma Balstead, the daughter of a British military attaché officer, has run away from home.
They fall madly in love, but theirs is a doomed affair, the consequences of which play out for years to come. This is Shooting The Moon, the new novel from Robert Fannin.
Robert Fannin will read from and sign copies of his new novel Shooting The Moon in the Galway Museum on Friday January 16 from 12 noon to 2pm.
The novel has already received great praise with Billy Roche calling it “an intriguing story, artfully spliced together using memory and time...Fannin is an exciting, fresh new voice”, and Peter Sheridan describing it as “insightful, disturbing, tragic, and funny”.
Fannin was born in Dublin in 1954 and left school at 15 to go to sea. In his varied career he has worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, radio presenter, sign writer, fisherman, and professional yacht skipper. As a freelance journalist he has been published in The Guardian and The Times as well as most of the world’s major yachting magazines.
