56 Days Novel

Author Name: Katherine Ryan Howard

The crime committed by two boys, Shane Hogan and Oliver St. Ledger, in the Mill River area in 2003, when they beat their friend, Paul Kelleher, and drowned him in the village river, is the driving force behind the events of the novel "56 Days" by Irish novelist Catherine Ryan Howard, published by Al-Matbou3a for Distribution and Publishing in Beirut, translated into Arabic by Antoine Bassil. The crime leaves devastating repercussions on the family of the first, who is sentenced to 20 years in prison, during which he commits suicide. It robs the father of his will to live, and he subsequently dies. It turns the mother's life upside down, causing her to fall ill and nearly die, and weighs heavily on the two sisters, Kira and Shivan, on the one hand. The second, who is sentenced to five years in prison, is haunted by guilt and weighs heavily on the other.