Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, this reissue makes available again the acclaimed debut of an outstanding writer.
Set in the seaside towns of Ireland, within the tiled Victorian walls of Kensal Rise Baths in Dublin on the day de Valera is buried, these stunning stories narrate the powerful rites of passage that form our lives - the end of childhood, the moment of death, the end of a love affair.
They reveal for the first time the extraordinary imagination and insight that characterises both the fiction and films of Neil Jordan.
One of the most remarkable stories that I have read in Irish storytelling - Sean O'Faolain
One of the most remarkable pieces of fiction to be published in recent years - Time Out