A long and rambling and colorful and wonderful novel about a father who runs away in pursuit of an actress, a son who journeys off to find him and the charismatic, scandalous and traitorous family behind it all. Frank Delaney's novel is a bittersweet trip through 1930s Ireland- its highways and byways but most of all its countryside and its people, whose central mystery isn't even revealed until the end, and much less ever solved. It's addictive, page-turning reading full of foreshadowing and bluster and charm.
See my full review on my blog: http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2010/04/review-venetia-kellys-traveling-show-by.html
