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|title=Young Skins

|author=Colin Barrett

|publisher=Vintage

|date=April 2014

|summary=Focussing on the lives of young adults living in small town Ireland, Young Skins contains realistic tales written with great skill.

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We're taken into the lives of the youthful inhabitants of small town Ireland in seven short stories of differing styles but a shared setting. Barrett writes of a doorman at a suburban nightclub, known and respected by all the locals, although we only read about a brief affair and his vulnerability. Another tale portrays a young rocker and his emotional state, years after an incident that scarred him both physically and mentally and made him the talk of the town. Other tales all share the same focus on people and small but meaningful personal events in their lives.