<p><i>Breakfast onPluto,</i> Patrick McCabe's lyrical and haunting new novel, became a #1bestseller in Ireland, stayed on the bestseller list for months, and wasnominated for the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literaryawards. With wonderful delicacy and subtle insight and intimation, McCabecreates Mr. Patrick "Pussy" Braden, the enduringly and endearingly hopefulhero(ine) whose gutsy survival and yearning quest for love resonate in anddrive the glimmering, agonizing narrative in which the troubles are adistant and immediate echo and refrain. Twenty years ago, her ladyshipescaped her hometown of Tyreelin, Ireland, fleeing her foster motherWhiskers (prodigious Guinness-guzzler, human chimney) and her mad household,to begin a new life in London. There, in blousey tops and satin miniskirts,she plies her trade, often risking life and limb amongst the flotsam andjetsam that fill the bars of Piccadilly Circus. But suave businessmen andlonely old women are not the only dangers that threaten Pussy