This book would be a good read for someone who enjoys a suspenseful and eerie novel. The author does an excellent job blending the boy narrator's two worlds together, leaving readers questioning what is real and what is not. The unique feature of this book is the way it seamlessly merges the supernatural with the real-life political and familial tensions of Northern Ireland during the mid 20th century.

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Author: Seamus Deane
Publisher: Vintage, 1997
Condition: Softcover, Well Read, Minor scuffing and foxing on front and back cover, Water damage on internal pages

A novel in which the boy narrator grows up enclosed in two worlds. One is legendary - a Donegal house where children are stolen away by demonic forces; the other is actual - the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 1940s and 1950s, a place haunted by political enmities and family secrets.:

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