The Wing Orderly's Tales

An instantly striking portrait of life inside a Northern Ireland prison. Composed of nine linked stories, each tale is narrated by Harry Chalky' Chalkman, an intelligent, street-wise and sensitive wing orderly (a prison inmate charged with the maintenance of order and cleanliness) serving a twelve-year sentence for Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm. Through Gebler's pitch-perfect dialogue and deep understanding of his characters, a world emerges that is full of contradiction and injustice, but not without warmth, humor and true human feeling. At times hilarious, violent, tender, and enlightening, The Wing Orderly's Tales is a major new work by one of Ireland's most important and critically lauded living writers.