As soon as you read the first paragraph, you will be drawn in. The language is finely honed and haunting. Set in Ireland in 1921, this is a story of how one chance incident affects and changes lives for ever. Gripping and unbelievably sad, and yet somehow cathartic too, I read it in one sitting.
When daylight came on the morning after the shooting, blood could be seen on the sea pebbles of the turn-around in front of the house .... The pebbles were raked, a couple of bucketfuls that had been discoloured in the accident taken away.
Captain Gault thought it would be all right then ....
