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Keep Breathing Out

Author(s) : Maurice White

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'Keep Breathing Out is a gem of a novel. With humour and pathos it traces the outside and inside lives of the characters, primarily that of the "locum", David Benn. The "locum" represents, in so many ways, the curious life of living on the border - an insider on the outside and the outsider on the inside - in Ireland in the 60s - a tradition and culture so exquisitely evoked here in its detail, and its need for, yet resistance to, change. Maurice White clearly speaks from experience: we find here the doctor, the psychiatrist and the psychoanalyst-to-be - long a "locum" in life's battles, from being the tubercular invalid boy to the Jewish psychiatrist at St Elba's mental asylum, somewhere south of Dublin. The book is at once racey and iconoclastic, it is about love and loss and it not a stranger to the darkness of human relations. It has a quirky detail of insight which keeps the pages rapidly turning.'
- Margot Waddell