The novel, Reading in the Dark, is written by Seamus Deanne. This book is written from the viewpoint of a little boy who explains the episodes of his life as he grows up. Apparently, Deanne said in an interview with the Irish Times, that the accounts in the story are taken from his own family along with the other families in his neighborhood in Derry, Northern Ireland. As I read the book, I didn't think …showed first 75 words of 606 total…

…showed last 75 words of 606 total…then on. I think this is probably another reason he began writing. He kept so much information inside for so long and writing was probably a major release for him. In conclusion, all of the people in the narrator's childhood, his family's history and the stories he was told all effected him greatly and were a major explanation for him becoming an author. I believe that is the central message in Reading in the Dark.