Lies of silence summary

ONE In the first chapter you get to know all important people of “Lies of Silence”. At the beginning the main character Michael Dillon is introdced to the reader. At this moment he is working at the hotel he is manager of. It` s evening, shortly before he stops working. Mainly he is planning the next day where would be a lot of work in the hotel because of a Speech of Reverant Pottinger and the graduation week at the university. When he is ready he phones Andrea, another important person of the story (later you get to know that Michael is having an affair with her). He leaves the hotel and drives to Andrea to take her for a walk. On his way he things about her and how he got to know her one year before. They get to the Lagan River towpath. Andrea tells Michael that she could have a got job in London and her doubts to go there because she would have to leave him. After a talk Michael promissed her, that he will tell Moira (his wife) about their affair, then ask his boss for a job in a hotel and London and go with her. Michael takes Andrea home and they date for the next day at the hotel. After this Dillon drives home. He thinks about the problems in Northern Ireland, the party he has met Moira first and the reasons why he has married her although they are very different. He arrives at home and searches for his cat Teddy which normally comes to him after he has parked the car in the entry way. As he doesn` t find Teddy he goes in and sees Moira and Peggy, a friend of her who doesn` t like Michael, in the sitting-room. Peg just wants to leave and Moira asks him to drive her home. On the way Peg tells him that she wants to open a second shop and wants Moira to work for her. Normally Michael wouldn` t de happy to see Moira working in shop because she has a much better education but in case of his plan to leave her he says that she has to decide it herself. When he comes back home he finds the dead body of his cat and wondered how this could has happened. He went in and noticed his wife phoning with Peg but she doesn` t tell him the real reason what they were talking about. Now the reader learns that Moira has bulimia and how Michael has got to knaw about. Moira goes to bed and Michael in his study to search for some papers he has to take when he leaves. He observes a car and the two people in at down at the street (later he knows that they belong to the IRA). When he goes to bed Moira starts a quarrel because of the shop. She thinks that she doesn` t need his permission and that he doesn` t love her anymore. Michael just wants to sleep and says they would talk about everything next morning. In the end of the first chapter Moira begs that he shouldn` t ever leave her. TWO The second chapter in “Lies of Silence” plays at night in Dillons house. After the quarrel with Moira and after she asks him not to leave her Michael can` t sleep. Then he hears a car outside, gets up and looks out of the window. In the street he notices the white Ford from before and someone triing to come in his house. He wants to phone the police, but the masked men of the IRA are faster. They told him to go upstairs to wake up his wife and put on some clothes.Michael and Moira have to go downstairs and sit down on the sofa. There are many young men in and around their house and they tells the Dillons that they would be there until the morning and that they should do what they are want to. Sitting on the sofa Moira gets in conflict with one of the man because she behaves very cheeky and doesn` t seem to be afraid of them. Moira wants to know very, too. Because of all this there is a lot of trouble. The