The small dark man

Maurice Walsh

earliest edition we have, 1979 Chambers, 1979 255 pages

This long ago novel is the perfect antidote to influenza, a charmingly sentimental love story. Hugh Forbes (the eponymous small, dark man) is an IRA activitist, who has neverthless become friends with a Scottish landowner. He is, incidentally, one of the minor characters in "The Quiet Man". Visiting Charles Grant, he meets his sister, who unfortunately has given her heart away to an arrogant, ill-tempered (English, o...

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The Small Dark Man paperback · 1993 · Balnain Books · 205 pages · 9781872557199
The small dark man edition · 1979 · Chambers · 255 pages

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