A slice of crazed, rural, Irish gothic: the tale of murder in a small Irish village in Donegal, Bogmail is a classic of modern Irish literature.
There's a point in this book when you realise you are sinking into this scurrilously funny tale of murder and mania, and that you wouldn't have it any other way ... McGinley's use of language is a marvel ... There are snatches of Beckett in here, and oodles of what Joyce termed a "scrupulous meanness" in drawing the characters' Irish Examiner.