Book description
Once, in Kilburn, married to the sugar-lipped Catherine and sharing
his daughter Immy's passion for the enchanted kingdom of winterwood,
Redmond Hatch was happy. But then infidelity, betrayal and the â Â
scary things' from which he would protect his daughter steal into the
magic kingdom, and bad things begin to happen. Now Redmond - once
little Red - prowls the barren outlands alone, haunted by the
disgraced shade of Ned Strange, a fiddler and teller of tales from his
home in the mountainy middle of Ireland.
his books dissect life's miseries with a gleaming comedic scalpel'
Patrick McCabe was born in Ireland in 1955. His novels include
Music on Clinton Street, Carn, The Butcher Boy
and Breakfast on Pluto. The latter two were shortlisted for the
Booker Prize. The Butcher Boy won the Irish Times/Aer
Lingus Literature Prize in 1992 and was made into a film, directed by
Neil Jordan, in 1997. The film Breakfast on Pluto, also
directed by and co-written with Neil Jordan, was released in 2006 to
great acclaim. Patrick McCabe lives in his home town of Clones, County
Monaghan.
