It should have been the start of the rest of their lives and indeed it was, but not in the way they had imagined.
On the eve of their university careers, two friends from a small southern Irish town hope to celebrate their impending adulthood through another rite of passage. But when their first sexual encounter is tainted forever by unusual and sinister circumstances they still have a chance to continue on their destined path. Unless they choose to ignore that anything ever happened . . .
An emotionally powerful story of male friendship under strain, of bonding and unraveling, of small town concerns and big time deeds, of black secrets and protracted humiliation.
An original new voice from rural Ireland, both unsentimental and poignant, Edmund Power provokes the reader into considering what they would have done differently, if placed in the same gut-wrenching situation. A gripping and highly-charged novel, 'No Christian Grave' explores the life-changing consequences of retaining a pact of silence.
