The Deportees: Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle`s first ever collection of stories.

For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today`s Ireland.

The stories range from `Guess Who`s Coming to the Dinner`, where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a terrifying ghost story, `The Pram`, in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge`s older sisters and decides - in a phrase she has learnt - to `scare them shitless`.