My earliest memories of traveling to Ireland are of the Glengarriff, which sailed from Liverpool Pier Head to Cork. There haven’t always been drive-on car ferries with reclining pullman seats and discos and tax-free perfume. This was a cattle boat, with berths for thirty or forty passengers as a sideline. I remember my father taking me below decks to see the animals. They were in a sort of stable, with straw. No nasty crates in those days. It all seemed perfectly natural; it was hard to tell whether the cows were going on holiday, or whether they’d already been and were on their way home.
From McCarthy’s Bar by Pete McCarthy page 44
Teaser Tuesdays is a fun weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along!
Just do the following:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Nice teaser! I liked very much the last line “it was hard to tell whether the cows were going on holiday, or whether they’d already been and were on their way home.” :)