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Des Dillon`s Six Black Candles
"Where's Stacie Gracie's head?"
... sharing space with the sweetcorn and two-for-one lemon meringue pies ... in the freezer.
Caroline's husband abandons her (bad move) for Stacie Gracie, his assistant at the meat counter, and incurs more wrath than he anticipated. Caroline, her five sisters, mother and granny, all with a penchant for witchery, invoke the lethal spell of the Six Black Candles. A natural reaction to the break up of a marriage?
The spell does kill. You only have to look at the evidence. Mess with these sisters, or Maw or Oul Mary and they might do the Six Black Candles on you. But will Caroline's home ever be at peace for long enough to do the spell and will Caroline really let them do it?
Set in present day Irish Catholic Coatbridge, Six Black Candles is bound together by the ropes of traditional storytelling and the strength of female familial relationships. Bubbling under the cauldron of superstition, witchcraft and religion is the heat of revenge; and the love and venom of sisterhood.
Praise for Six Black Candles
"the Lyceum's Mark Thomson... thought Des was a woman, so deft was his writing about female interaction."
THE SCOTSMAN
"a great dramatic situation, in which the primitive Darwinian passions of lust, rage, vengeance, and fierce family loyalty come into conflict with the everyday scepticism of the sisters' modern lives"
"Dillon spins physical and verbal comedy out of his scenario with all the flair of a born playwright"
THE SCOTSMAN
"The writing is always truthful, immediate and powerful."
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
"naturally paced so that the action ebbs and flows, giving each sister time to establish themselves with all sorts of sub-plots and intricacies of character coming to the surface, while the actual plot comes to a satisfying conclusion."
EVENING NEWS
"Dillon clearly understands the mechanics of human interaction, particularly where the family is concerned"
"an evening of unconfined entertainment"
THE INDEPENDENT
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