Abraham Little has all the trappings of success, but behind the mask of business executive is a man in pain. His work is unfulfilling and his marriage is on the rocks. A curious coincidence at an airport results in him meeting another man with the same name. As Abraham boards his plane, he receives a text message from his namesake. It reads ‘I’m the person you could have been.’ Purchase your signed hardcopy edition by clicking below, or download to your Kindle via Amazon. Available on Kindle
Banned on its 1961 release and long overlooked, The Pilgrimage returns as a startlingly modern portrait of desire, secrecy and small‑town conformity. John Broderick’s fearless debut follows Julia Glynn, a respectable wife in an Irish midlands town whose carefully arranged life begins to fracture after a series of anonymous letters expose the frailty of the world she inhabits.
As Julia, her ailing husband, their watchful manservant and an ambitious young doctor prepare for a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the novel plunges into the hypocrisies, longings and unspoken tensions that shape a society crackling with self-awareness and concealed passions.
Darkly comic, unsettling and steeped in the atmosphere of 1950s Ireland, The Pilgrimage offers a daring exploration of sexuality, power and self‑deception. Tt stands as a vivid, transgressive classic that feels as provocative, and as essential, as ever.