Joan Mackenzie: The Searcher and All The Young Men

The Searcher by Tana FrenchOne of my favourite writers is back. Cal is an ex Boston cop who’s having a midlife crisis and buys a rundown place in the Irish countryside to lick his wounds and start again – when a local kid turns up and asks for Cal’s help in finding his missing older brother. Even small towns can have big secrets.All The Young Men by Ruth Coker BurksThis is a profoundly moving and wonderful memoir from a woman who, when she was 26, came across a young man in hospital who was dying of AIDS. None of the staff, nor his family would have anything to do with him and she became a one woman support network to that community, giving the men food, medicine and comfort – all while trying to bring up her young daughter on her own, with very little income. It’s an amazing story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.