From the author of the critically acclaimed The Mermaids Singing comes a haunting, luminous novel set on an enchanted island off the west coast of Ireland where magic, faith, and superstition pervade the inhabitants’ lives and tangl...

IN THE COUNTRY OF THE YOUNG unfolds dreamily, moving between past and present..., until all of its stories swirl into one. In the end this story is less about the pretty young ghost and her awakening than about the stony middle-aged m...