In For the Good Times Keenan recreates Belfast and the Troubles in the 1970s with an almost hallucinatory feel, recreating the undocumented lives, the murders that took place, the families that were bereaved. For the Good Times was selected from six shortlisted titles, all compulsive, all audacious and chimerical. Between them were addressed race, violence, exclusion, safe spaces, and alternate history. ? – The Gordon Burn Prize