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Friend of Bobby’s. Former
labourer for Pokey Burke. He loves women and sex. Supposed father of Dylan. He suffers from depression but no-one knows.

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Isolation/depression/mental health

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Owns crèche where Dylan goes.

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Her son died while out with her brother
(Garda Jim) when they were fishing. Separated from her husband, lost her job, admires
Bobby and his mother. She recounts rumours about Realtín and Bobby’s ‘affair’.

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Dylans mother.Ex-girlfriend of Seanie Shaper.

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Effect of unemployment

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The recession

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Small town gossip/rumours

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Emigration

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London School of Economics and Political Science

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C4 News Alternative Booker: Paul Mason on The Spinning Heart

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In the first of our Alternative Booker series, Paul Mason picks Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart as the best book of the year: a novel full of the "poetry of experience" which explores the impact of Ireland's financial crash through one rural town.

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Lily is a prostitute.
Admires Bobby.
Mother of Millicent’s.

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Character notes

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Copy of The Spinning Heart characters and pictures

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Frank is Bobby's father and is a horrible old man that has no reaspect for his son Bobby or his late wife/Bobby's mom.

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Bobby is a kind character which many of the other characters seem to admire him.He is the novel protagonist and unites the main plot point of the novel

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Trevor is a schizophrenic
he wants to kill bobby
he thinks his mother is a vampire
spies on Realtin