Only a writer of Bolger’s precision and suppleness could wade back through the nation’s self-loathing into that mess and mine new truths, treasures to be heeded and learned from…Bolger isn’t meditating on regret, love, moral fibre, greed and carpe diem – he’s setting the record straight on them…This is storytelling that flows deep and soundly, and brims with a hard-earned wisdom…sublime.