Clochan

<p>KEVIN NEAL at the foot of the Blackstairs Mountains fails to bait a Púca to fight. In this compelling heartrending Irish coming-of-age story he learns too well what it costs when monsters are unleashed.</p><p>Decades before the great famine the youngest Neal boy survives the war but believes he has lost everyone. A stubborn persistence a crumpled letter and the nurturing support of rural mountain folk enable him on his journey through his formative years. When he locates a childhood friend-Anastasia Kelly he learns that she has become aloof and part of a different world. ANTY is as much a stranger to him as the tenants around an abbey by the seashore. The orphans try to hide from the past but the violence encircling threatens what little they have left.</p><p>Can the orphans survive the wake of an Irish rebellion and the troubles unleashed? And how does a boy fight a thing that tears apart the living and cuts through bone without alerting a corrupt gentry and the sheriff's men?</p>