Chris Binchy 
Open-handed 

The place is Dublin. The time is the present. Five characters two Irish, three from eastern Europe, all seeking success from wildly different starting points become entangled with one another in a web of politics, property, sex and violence. Chris Binchy s breakthrough novel is a beautifully observed portrait of a time and place, and a thrillingly paced story of characters brought together by circumstance, ambition and need.