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The Metal Mountain
John Healy
Etruscan Books £14.95
IT is 30 years since John Healy wrote his classic Grass Arena — his autobiography of growing up Irish in London.
His new novel continues this theme as we look back at 1950s Britain and the lives of the Docherty family, Irish immigrants who have survived the second world war, and are bringing up their children in a bombed-out London.
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