Synopsis
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice
Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016
Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017
Longlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2017
1950. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest. But, somehow, her baby survives.
1976. A mysterious and charming young man returns to the remote coastal village of Mulderrig, seeking answers about the mother who, it was said, had abandoned him on the steps of a Dublin orphanage.
With the help of its oldest and most eccentric inhabitant, he will force the village to give up its ghosts. Nothing, not even the dead, can stay buried forever.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- ISBN: 9781786899835
- Number of pages: 368
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
- Weight: 246g
- Languages: English
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A touching story
I felt really sorry for Mahony that his mother abandoned him as a baby. The unpopularity and the identity of his father remains a mystery. Father McNamara ... READ MORE
Fantastical writing
After devouring and loving Things in Jars I just had to treat myself to Jess Kidd’s first book, Himself. And what a treat it was to read such a fantastical... READ MORE