Japan s air attack on the American fleet at the naval base at Pearl Harbor is often seen as a turning point in World War II. The U.S. was officially a neutral country then, but the next day, December 8, 1941
This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact is “generated by a random weather event – a light fall of snow.” We see a spontaneous snowball fight, followed by a retreat to warm up in the Museum of Anthropology. One can almost hear the acoustic cover of a decades-old pop song playing behind their first date and then their decision to move in together. “By then, they had fallen in love with each other, in the way that young people do, the first time they have their own place to themselves. Not much thinking was required.”
New book from Ed O Loughlin, journalist and author with Kildare links
Senan Hogan reports that This Eden, a novel by Ed O’Loughlin, will be published in early June
Reporter:
);
A journalist and author who was raised in Kildare is preparing for the publication of his new novel in June.
Ed O’Loughlin’s This Eden is being described as a smart modern-day adventure reminiscent of both the cyber noir novels of William Gibson and the golden age of espionage fiction.
Mr O’Loughlin grew up in Kildare town where he moved from his native Toronto, Canada, aged six.