All the Dead Voices

Danny Morrison was born in Belfast in 1953 and has written three novels - West Belfast (1989), On the Back of the Swallow (1994) and The Wrong Man (1997) - and a highly regarded autobiographical work, Then the Walls Came Down (1999). He lives in Belfast. The voices of the dead - speaking of their lives, their hopes and dreams - echo through this book. In vivid, tender, thought-provoking pieces, Danny Morrison celebrates the indomitable human spirit that sustains us through our darkest moments.The focus shifts from the tragic, long-drawn-out death of Danny's beloved sister to the violent killing of an IRA Volunteer, from the suicide of an unhappy, lonely woman in Belfast to the last days of a young Canadian soldier killed during the First World War.With sorrow but also with wry humour, Morrison evokes the presence of these dead and writes movingly of their lasting legacy - what he has learned from them about how to live, how to forgive and how to love.