She That Lay Silent-Like Upon Our Shore: 'An act of pure imagination' ANNE ENRIGHT

'Story telling at its most primal . . . brutal, tender and wildly imaginative' Irish Times

'An act of pure imagination' ANNE ENRIGHT

'Strange and darkly wondrous . . . like a wild and witty outtake from a folkloric Moby-Dick' PHILIP HOARE

A creature from another world had collided with ours - a reckonin she might properwise be knowt, a great reckonin had washed upon our shores, and I ran twort it.

On a remote island in the northern seas an unnamed boy is exiled from his community and cast into ...