A Thought Without Collision

'An utterly distinctive voice in contemporary Irish literature' IRISH TIMES
'One of our most original writers'IRISH INDEPENDENT

Summer, 1923. Six-year-old Catherine Carolan grows restless on her parents' farm. It's already clear that her intellect will soon outgrow the two-room schoolhouse across the fields. But in post-Civil War Ireland, an education is not an easy thing for a girl to access, and young Catherine is not the only one in her family who will come to tire of rural life.

Summer, 19...