The Fifth Province

Timmy Sugrue is a persecuted guesthouse keeper and writer who lives with his mad mother in a very rainy part of the Irish midlands His only consolation are his visits to Dr Drudy a psychiatrist whom he can tell about the love of his life the President of Ireland A new motorway puts Timmys guesthouse off the map A strange Spanish pilot named Marcel comes to visit and create havoc in the guesthouse Timmy goes to a scriptwriters conference where only fast urban and upbeat stories are expected nothing like Timmys own story Uneasy in any of the four provinces of Ireland he desperately tries to reach the Fifth Province the province of magic of passion of possibility