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Milwaukee, 1985, and a teenage Loyalist terrorist on a cultural exchange program, falls for a Catholic girl. But when heartbreak shatters his illusions about peace, love and understanding, what will keep his hands off his American host's guns?

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'Young Wil Carson is...

...full of mischief and fun and an absolute delight to go on holiday with – if you are not a lazy feckless Fenian rat from Belfast, that is – in which case he will happily blow away your duplicitous Taig soul, and without so much as a murmur, go back to polishing his .44 Magnum as he cranks Eddie Van Halen all the way up to 11. The struggle for peace in Northern Ireland – via Milwaukee – has never been presented like this before. It is like The Katzenjammer Kids meets Wee Hughie – warm, tender, and full of yearning for the world to be right, where The Beast has been banished and the rainbow’s colours bathe the garden place. This is the song Wil Carson sings, and if its music is sad, it is also uplifting. Headbanger is a crackerjack debut and Kerr is a mighty fine writer. Buy it.’ PATRICK McCABE