It's 1959 in Omagh, Co Tyrone. Adam Faith is topping the hit parade and seventeen-year-old Jim McGrath is on the brink of adult life. But what sort of life? He could become a priest, which would mean he'd be in God's good books and could stop worrying about his death-day and having the pennies put on his eyes and going to hell. His mother and his uncle Father Frank the priest would like that.
But studying to be a priest sounds grim. Besides, Jim's friend Presumer Livingstone doesn't give a damn about priests or brothers or anyone else and he seems to be having a much better time. And what about Christy Wenton, a girl who talks about undressing people with her eyes?
As the school year draws to a close, Jim must choose: respectability or friendship, the spirit or the flesh?
Both poignant and humorous, 'The Garden Of Eden All Over Again' captures the world of boyhood uncertainties and restlessness as the new decade approaches.
