Roddy Doyle - The Guts

Doyle’s saga of the fictional Irish Barrytown continues with a look in on Jimmy Rabbitte, who was the teenage manager of the eponymous teenage band in The Commitments. It’s no longer 1987, and Jimmy is middle-aged now, a father of four, and recently diagnosed with cancer. But he’s still in the music business and despite his illness and a tanking economy, as irrepressible as ever. Grand! (Viking)