Dangerous Fictions

by Ita Daly

The chilly grandeur of a Georgian house seems to exemplify the type of person Martina has become - a decorous, passive figure acting out a dangerous fiction. This story explores the tenuous boundaries between passion and hostility, sanity and madness which may be crossed without warning.

165 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1989

About the author

Ita Daly's short stories have won the Hennessy Literary Award and the Irish Times short story competition, and are collected in The Lady with the Red Shoes (1980). Her novels include Unholy Ghosts (1997), All Fall Down (1992), Dangerous Fictions (1991), A Singular Attraction (1987) and Ellen (1986). She has written two books for children, Candy on the Dart (1989) and Candy and Sharon Olé (1991). She was married to the author David Marcus until his death in 2009. She currently lives in Dublin.