Not Untrue And Not Unkind

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009

'I could just as easily leave Cartwright out of this. But he's forced his way into it, dust reassembling ... » 

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009

'I could just as easily leave Cartwright out of this. But he's forced his way into it, dust reassembling itself...
Years after I stopped caring, after I gave up all the play-acting, I learn that someone else was watching all along.'

In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright commits suicide. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwright's desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph, which brings him back, once again, to a dusty road in Africa and to the woman he once loved...

Not Untrue and Not Unkind is Owen's story - a gripping story of friendship, rivalry and guilt among a group of journalists and photographers covering Africa's wars. It is an astonishingly powerful and accomplished debut that immediately establishes Ed O'Loughlin as a mature master of the novel form. «