
The Pines Know
by Bags

Cian Lee is a twenty-one-year-old gambling addict in recovery, but he is also a young boy who never learnt how to cope with his father’s death. Cian is naturally smart and athletic, he has a mother and brother who adore him, a best friend who worships him, and an empathetic girlfriend, but why does Cian continue to push everything and everyone away? This literary novel holds up a mirror to the drink, drug & gambling culture in modern day Ireland, questioning whose to blame for addictions.