What is wrong when a respected school principal cannot forget or forgive an incident in the past with a twelve-year-old student ? What happens when their paths cross again with so much at stake for them both?
Brian Kerrigan has resurrected his career and his life following a road accident in which his six-year-old son was killed. In his darkest hour, an incident with a boy he was teaching prompted him to lose all that was dear to him. That boy was Liam Moran.
Fifteen years later, Liam Moran returns to his hometown, putting a failed professional soccer career behind him in the hope of bonding with his six-year-old son, Donal. Brian’s and Liam’s paths cross again in the new school of this changed town. Their uneasy relationship escalates into hostility as the chaotic past and turmoil of the present becomes entangled in their lives. When Liam understands that Brian is about to spoil his one chance at love and happiness with his son, he sets in motion a chain of events that takes them both to the point of no return.
‘That One Child’ is the first novel by new Irish writer John Fintan McCutcheon. GRAB YOUR KINDLE COPY TODAY!