To everyone on the outside, Irishman Paddy is the biggest pessimist you could ever meet. Or so he's been told, anyway. Everyone from his psychiatrist to his best mate thinks that he needs to shape up and start looking on the bright side of life. But the thing is, the Irishman has always done that - it's just that his vision of the bright side is a slight shade different from everyone else's. Because while a long history of letting loose and a few questionable friends haven't exactly given the bloke a life to be envied, it's certainly one that's proved to never be boring. Mulling over the lives of Paddy and his closest drug-addled friends, a darkly comic tale of lost love and tragic comedowns is explored in humourous detail in The Blarney Man. Following Paddy as he gets himself into one ridiculous situation after another, trying his best to romance Heather, the woman of his dreams, and pondering everything from potential stints in prison to blow-up dolls, the wild lives of these lovable misfits is celebrated in the raucous new novel from P.K. Dowling. Promising to be one of the craziest rides of the year, The Blarney Man offers an insight into an average group of men who turn out to be anything but. Fuelled on a volatile cocktail of drugs, sex and booze, the blisteringly funny tale of this rag-tag group of oddballs is brilliantly brought to life in the pages of Dowling's eccentric new novel.