Close To Home TPB

Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive.

After Sean attacks a stranger at a party, and is sentenced to 200 hours of community service, he is forced to reckon with the relationships that have shaped him for better and worse - with his chaotic and traumatised family, with the childhood mates now stuck in cycles of petty crime, and with the deeply scarred city he calls home.

Close to Home witnesses the aftermath of that night, as Sean attempts to make sense of who he has become, and to reckon with the relationships that have shaped him, for better and worse.

Drawing from his own experiences, Michael Magee examines the forces which keep young working class men in harm's way, in a debut novel which shines with intelligence and humanity on every page. Close to Home is an extraordinary work of fiction about deciding what kind of a man you want to be and finding your place in the scarred city you call home.