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Illustrator Alan Clarke Country Ireland Series Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Originally published 1 September 2016 Page count 400 Preceded by Seedless in Seattle | 4.5/5 Goodreads Cover artist Alan Clarke Language English Pages 400 ISBN 9781844883455 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Game of Throw-ins is a 2016 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard and serves as the sixteenth book in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.
Contents
The title refers to the TV series Game of Thrones and the rugby throw-in.
Plot
Ross joins a struggling Seapoint rugby team. Ronan is in a turf war with a rival Love/Hate tour operator. Honor is in love with a Justin Bieber lookalike. However, Ross is a bit of an innocent boy. Fionnuala is marrying a 92-year-old billionaire.
Reception
The Irish Times praised it, saying "This is sharp satire that manages the difficult trick of creating characters we care about. It is a very funny book, often hilarious, providing storylines that mostly keep the page-turning going. Yet it has a genuine heart of darkness hidden beneath the layers of craic, great gags, great storytelling and human warmth. In this way, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is Ireland."