The novel culminates in a startling crescendo of violence, vengeance and resolution.

Thanks to Mina's considerable narrative skills, the Glasgow of Paddy's flea market, Albert Hospital and the area near the bus station where street prostitutes hang out emerges in gritty clarity. The sordidness and the seemingly insuperable odds Maureen faces make her retreat into alcoholism seem appropriate. Maureen's efforts to help an illiterate old woman fill out a legal complaint against her son lead her into more danger and ugliness. And Maureen's abusive father, Michael, has returned to Glasgow and she fears for her sister's soon-to-be-born baby. With trepidation, Maureen awaits the trial of her lover's murderer, Angus Farrell, whose evil threatens her even while he's in jail. Maureen and her friends Leslie and Kilty are as unlikely a trio of dragon-slayers as one might find. But for Maureen O'Donnell, whose continued existence is a triumph of will, there's also a strong sense of family and friendships forged in the crucible of survival. Forced prostitution, child sexual abuse, alcoholism, dysfunctionality of every kind all are not so much spotlighted as they are integral parts of the fabric of the characters' lives. Because of her fathers job as an engineer, the family followed the north sea oil boom of the seventies around Europe, moving twenty one times in eighteen years from Paris to the Hague, London, Scotland and Bergen. Already deeply in debt and struggling with alchoholism, she now faces her most.

Life has gotten no easier for Maureen ODonnell since the events in Exile.

In this powerful, disturbing, wrenching conclusion to the Scottish author's Garnethill trilogy (Garnethill Exile), the sense of everydayness renders the horrors Mina's Glaswegians confront even more terrible. Irresistibly blending suspense, mystery, compassion, raw instinct, and grim wit, Resolution provides a wrenching conclusion to Denise Minas universally acclaimed Garnethill trilogy.

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