The Meat Eaters Doubleday or endanger the family

or endanger the family

and Freeman's past explodes into the present

Twelve-year-old Tunde is just your average kid: average friends

Dr Ruth Hartland rises to difficult tasks

The Meat Eaters Doubleday or endanger the familyMichael Collins's stories are about Ireland, about the Irish as they are and as they would like to be imagined. In the title story we see the fatal consequences of self deception. Posing as a nationalist hero, a young man travels to America with a suitcase full of meat. The warm welcome he expects swiftly dematerialises as he awakes to the grim realities of life in hiding. The vivid, surreal splendour of the writing allied with images of real people