Few and Far Between: A Novel

Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year

From a “deeply talented” (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning writer comes an “irresistibly diverting and vivid” (The Guardian) alternative history of Northern Ireland’s recent past, in which the last remaining residents of a haunted archipelago face imminent eviction from their home.

In 1958, a politician’s ludicrous proposal to create a seventh county for Northern Ireland by draining Lough Neagh—the largest lake in...