Ireland in the 14th century, where greed, madness and the Black Death come together for a darkly comic debut
Oisin Fagan: symbols resurface, powerfully, throughout the novel: a green-eyed fox, ‘the thing of crows’, butterflies …isín Fagan’s first novel is a dark and bloody tale, well leavened with bone-dry humour, and with a dramatic climax that has about it the flavour of a Jacobean tragedy . The medieval Ireland in which the book is set was a complicated and contending mix of native Irish, or Gaels; long-settled English, many of Norman origin; and more recent English settlers.
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