Written by James Lawless
Narrated by Karl Haycock
Duration 8 hours and 30 minutes
*Award-winning author *(Scintilla Welsh Open Poetry Competition, WOW award, Cecil Day Lewis Award)
Laurence J Benbo is a thirty seven year old graphic artist and Dublin bachelor, awkward with women and lonely after the breakup with his girlfriend Deborah. He meets Jadwiga, a lapdancer and, after winning a lottery, he bestows gifts on her. But his upwardly mobile brother Maoilíosa and his scheming wife Ena, on hearing of his win, try to blackmail the innocent Laurence into handing his money over to them by alleging that he sexually interfered with their daughter Lydia. Laurence seeks out Jadwiga for advice in her lapdancing club. To his dismay, he sees her going into a room with Maoilíosa. He spends the night awake listening to the rain pattering at his window, thinking of Deborah and he imagines little Lydia coming to seek out her uncle Lar to finish the story he had started reading to her. As the rain gets heavier he knows there is going to be a storm.
‘Brimming with intellect and poeticism, Lawless portrays a protagonist with a breadth that is effortlessly involving.’ Sunday Independent.
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