lies of silence
LIES OF SILENCE - SUMMARY
ONE
In the first chapter you get to know all important people of “Lies of Silence”. At the beginning the main character Michael Dillon is introdced to the reader. At this moment he is working at the hotel he is manager of. It`s evening, shortly before he stops working. Mainly he is planning the next day where would be a lot of work in the hotel because of a Speech of Reverant Pottinger and the graduation week at the university. When he is ready he phones Andrea, another important person of the story (later you get to know that Michael is having an affair with her). He leaves the hotel and drives to Andrea to take her for a walk. On his way he things about her and how he got to know her one year before. They get to the Lagan River towpath.
Andrea tells Michael that she could have a got job in London and her doubts to go there because she would have to leave him. After a talk Michael promissed her, that he will tell Moira (his wife) about their affair, then ask his boss for a job in a hotel and London and go with her. Michael takes Andrea home and they date for the next day at the hotel. After this Dillon drives home. He thinks about the problems in
Northern Ireland, the party he has met Moira first and the reasons why he has married her although they are very different. He arrives at home and searches for his cat Teddy which normally comes to him after he has parked the car in the entry way.
As he doesn`t find Teddy he goes in and sees Moira and Peggy, a friend of her who doesn`t like Michael, in the sitting-room. Peg just wants to leave and Moira asks him to drive her home. On the way Peg tells him that she wants to open a second shop and wants Moira to work for her. Normally Michael wouldn`t de happy to see Moira working in shop because she has a much better education but in case of his plan to leave her he says that she has to decide it herself. When he comes back home he finds the dead body of his cat and
ONE
In the first chapter you get to know all important people of “Lies of Silence”. At the beginning the main character Michael Dillon is introdced to the reader. At this moment he is working at the hotel he is manager of. It`s evening, shortly before he stops working. Mainly he is planning the next day where would be a lot of work in the hotel because of a Speech of Reverant Pottinger and the graduation week at the university. When he is ready he phones Andrea, another important person of the story (later you get to know that Michael is having an affair with her). He leaves the hotel and drives to Andrea to take her for a walk. On his way he things about her and how he got to know her one year before. They get to the Lagan River towpath.
Andrea tells Michael that she could have a got job in London and her doubts to go there because she would have to leave him. After a talk Michael promissed her, that he will tell Moira (his wife) about their affair, then ask his boss for a job in a hotel and London and go with her. Michael takes Andrea home and they date for the next day at the hotel. After this Dillon drives home. He thinks about the problems in
Northern Ireland, the party he has met Moira first and the reasons why he has married her although they are very different. He arrives at home and searches for his cat Teddy which normally comes to him after he has parked the car in the entry way.
As he doesn`t find Teddy he goes in and sees Moira and Peggy, a friend of her who doesn`t like Michael, in the sitting-room. Peg just wants to leave and Moira asks him to drive her home. On the way Peg tells him that she wants to open a second shop and wants Moira to work for her. Normally Michael wouldn`t de happy to see Moira working in shop because she has a much better education but in case of his plan to leave her he says that she has to decide it herself. When he comes back home he finds the dead body of his cat and