# Cal

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- Book: [Cal](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-maclaverty/cal) ([Cal.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-maclaverty/cal.md))
- Authors: [Bernard MacLaverty](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-maclaverty)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-18-0784-514-8
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2026-11-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Cal is a young man whose choices look limited: a Catholic boy in a Protestant area in the time of the Troubles, a job in an abattoir is his only nauseating alternative to the dole queue. But then Cal makes a choice that does change everything, and he's pulled towards the world of the IRA. And when he falls for the widow of a Protestant man murdered by his friends, Cal must struggle to keep their love alive in a land of fear.