This Lime Tree Bower, by Conor McPherson
1996
Conor McPherson, Irish playwright and screenwriter, has several plays to his credit including the critically acclaimed St. Nicholas. Another of his works, "The Weir," brought him London's Evening Standard Drama Award for Most Promising Playwright. His work on the film "I Went Down" represents his first experience as a screenwriter.
Conor McPherson's This Lime Tree Bower also comes out on top; it may not be a play, but it's a damn fine story.
Frank works in the family "chipper" in a quiet seaside town south of Dublin; his younger brother Joe nurses a non-sexual schoolboy infatuation with the charismatic but significantly named Damian; their sister's boyfriend Ray is an arrogant, philandering philosophy don. Each has his own wants – teenage love, intellectual glory or the chance to take the local shark down several pegs; Frank and Ray show holes at their respective cores, Joe feels a similar lack which is part of the adolescent experience. Turn and turn about, they give their individual accounts of a week in which Joe sees Damian's true colours, Ray disgraces himself and Frank pulls off an unexpectedly high-yield robbery.

Photo taken of our Linden Tree. Another book I haven't read, its in the list compiled by Boris.