A former Belfast politician is due to release his first novel later this month.
James McVeigh, who formerly represented Sinn Féin on Belfast City Council, has penned `Stolen Faith', a fictional story about Ireland's mother and baby homes, told through the eyes of a young Belfast woman called Rose Rafferty.
The novel is described as being a "thrilling tale of one family's determination to seek the truth, find a stolen child and to hold the Catholic Church to account".
The story is based on the Republic's Tuam mother and baby home scandal, which found that hundreds of babies had been buried in a mass and unmarked grave near a home in Co Galway.
Mr McVeigh, a former republican prisoner, said `Stolen Faith' is "not for the faint hearted".
"It starts at 1944 in Belfast and then it moves to present day Boston and it is about the whole issue of trafficking children," he said.
"It is dealing with that, through the experience of one family and their search for this child and the truth as well."
The book, which goes on sale on February 28, will be launched at the James Connolly Visitor Centre on the Falls Road in west Belfast on March 3 at 7pm.
