At the end of the 1970s, Kathleen's son Sean has been convicted of an IRA crime and sent to Belfast's Maze. John Dunn has just taken a job as a prison guard there after leaving the army. Both will be shocked at what they find. Both will try to do the right thing. Neither will be the same again. Award-winning writer Louise Dean's second novel is receiving rave reviews. "Dean is an audacious arrival in British fiction." -Guardian.
