Like the great Jesus Christ himself, I had a lot of shit on my mind when I hit 33 …
I had three new-born future Ireland internationals to feed, a daughter in need of psychiatric evaluation and a teenage son obsessed with uncovering the shameful secrets of our family’s 1916 past.
Throw into the mix a sister missing in Orgentina, a wife struggling to lose the weight from her orse and an interfering father-in-law living under my roof.
You can see why, like the Son of God, my life had become a major hassle.
And just when I thought it couldn’t get any more difficult, a moment of madness involving – what else? – the opposite sex persuaded Sorcha that I needed to have the unkindest cut of all.
Seedless in Seattle is the fifteenth novel in Paul Howard’s ‘Ross O’Carroll-Kelly’ series. Ross books – annual No 1 best-sellers – have sold over half a million copies, are annually nominated for the Popular Fiction prize at the Irish Book Awards – where they have won the prize an unprecedented three times – and are also critically acclaimed as satirical masterpieces.
