The Giant, O'Brien Michael Molloy THE SHORE is a breathtakingly

THE SHORE is a breathtakingly ambitious and accomplished work of fiction by a young writer of astonishing gifts

closed round of school

bitter rivals

that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold

Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body

The Giant, O'Brien Michael Molloy THE SHORE is a breathtakinglyFrom the author of A Place of Greater Safety, winner of the 1992 Sunday Express Book of The Year Award, this new title is based on the true story of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles OBrien, who was exhibited in London and eventually dissected by the surgeon John Hunter. OBriens bones hang to this day in the Hunterian Museum in Lincolns Inn Field, despite OBriens best endeavours to avoid such a fate. Charles OBrien, bard and giant. The cynical are