The Troubles is a tale of crumbling British colonial rule in Ireland told through the lens of an eccentric cast of The Quality living in a dilapidated hotel: The Majestic.

The pacing is quite literally glacial, twisting, and plodding, much like taking a stroll through the rotten corridors of the great building. It's a comedy, but like all comedies it's juxtapose with striking terror, and other very heavy themes. All of which the cast attempts to gloss over with a veneer of 'civilization' in a land that their bigotry and fear deems to be more and more barbaric. 

Not a book for everyone, and honestly parts of it were pretty hard work because of the pacing, but I'm very glad that I completed it.