Mr S and the Secrets of Andorra’s Box
By Ross O’Carroll-Kelly

You might need a special lexicon and an in-depth knowledge of designers and models to keep up with Ross O’Carroll Kelly’s latest exploits. Ross has a job thrust upon him, in his natural field, as coach to the Andorran national rugby team. There is also an unexpected guest staying in his house! He must play manager and guardian, with hilarious consequences!

Ronan, his ten year old son has a life of his own on Dublin’s Northside, and Ross’s visits to Dublin Odd offer even more insight into the Southside animal.

Ross would like to disown his own parents, to whom he shows a more than rudely healthy disrespect. Sorcha has left, taking their daughter this time, but Ross is so busy juggling his responsibilities…

Events unfold in this instalment at a great pace and are shockingly funny– the laughter can be gut-wrenching. The novel is very tight and the locations will be familiar to Dubliners. It’s great craic.

The blokes spend all their time ‘ripping the piss out of everything’, and the girls that he knows ‘cracking their holes laughing’ all the time! If you are still innocent about this lifestyle and before the recession sets in and wrecks it all, it’s time to read this.

If I had to sum it up in a fragrance, I would say it’s Escape for women, very fresh and frivolous, unchallenging, with many high notes, and Polo for men, relentlessly sporty, slightly troubling, stable yet unstable, hasn’t changed since the 80’s, posing no deep questions and unrepentant.