In the Irish village of Garradrimna, every window watches, and every rumour travels. Nan Brennan has staked her pride on her son John becoming a priest, but the valley’s malice, drink and long memory work against them both. MacNamara drew the book from the Westmeath country he knew, and it was publicly burned there after publication.
A bitter, unsentimental answer to the cosy rural Ireland of earlier fiction, still startling today. Download the free EPUB.