Close to HomeLuminous and devastating, a portrait of young manhood and working class life from Observer Best New Novelist Michael Magee. Close to Home follows Sean, who is back in Belfast and slipping into old habits. He's caught up in the cycle of mad all nighters, borrowed tenners, and missing rent, while the casual jobs he takes constantly fall through. He's back in the scarred streets where the promised prosperity of peacetime has never truly arrived. Among