Kerry, 1923, as civil war rages all around them captain Mat Daly is ordered to present himself in Seanabhaile within five days with a despatch box… and a prisoner. This high;y-acclaimed novel tells the story of Mat Daly, a man who has never been with a woman; of Cáit Bric, a young woman who has spent her life in slavery; and of Breen, a handsome young man who has his own cross to carry through the snowbound mountains of Kerry.
“A delightful book… You won’t be able to put this book down. It contains humour, a touch of bitterness, tradition, innovation, nature, and a hundred new questions. The names in this book will conjure up ghosts from biographies of the past, yet the characters here are deeply human.” —Máire Ní Fhinneadha, Foinse
