Martin Doyle

the main character in it, Marcus Conway, he is dead.

He has just died of a heart attack, but he doesn't realise it.

And so the book is told in a single sentence, which is kind of, you know, the most magnificent sort of single span structure in Irish literature, I'd argue.

And he is looking back on his life.

He's thinking about

his relationship with his wife, with his artist daughter, with his son who's emigrated to Australia.

He's thinking about, you know, his work, which is, you know, relatively ordinary kind of work as a kind of a county engineer.

His, you know, his day-to-day life was, you know...

being in charge of building bridges or repairing schools and so forth.

But it gets into the nitty gritty of stuff like kind of local corruption in terms of, you know, Gerry built buildings and he's kind of trying to call politicians and people taking shortcuts to account.

So in that sense, it's getting right into...

and the nitty gritty of Irish life and petty corruption and stuff.

But it's also about love.

It's about family.

It's about all, you know, all the good stuff, but it's written in such a beautiful way.

You know, it honestly, you know, read it for yourself.

It's a masterpiece.

So it's, I think there's, is it two or three series?

It's a while since I've seen it.

It's set in the city of Atlanta in Georgia, which is kind of known as the black Hollywood.