In the Mouth of Monsters

"The cracks in my foundation seem to be spreading by the hour. The smooth ashlar thats been my face on to the world is splitting apart. I built on the solid basis that Dads conventional life ended in a disaster for which no one could be blamed, and Mums grief then calcified into an unbreakable carapace. Since I was ten those simple facts underpinned the whole unquestioning construct of my life until now. The weight of evidence for the full story has totally crushed them. Ivor Hughes arrival at Marlene Paines funeral leads to a love story from thirty years before and striking revelations that show her son Michael the way to becoming a new man. Despite the threatening power of industry, In the Mouths of Monsters tells how tragedies can be forged from secrets the secrets of the monsters inside us all.