Initially published in 1984 Dermot Healys stunning first novel Fighting with Shadows returns to print after almost thirty years. Largely set in the border village of Fanacross Co. Fermanagh as Ireland stumbles clumsily toward modernity the Allen family negotiate a bitter and troubled terrain. Fighting with Shadows offers extraordinary and poetic glimpses of the compelling lives of ordinary people. The novels landscape is of borderlands of inbetween spaces it tells of violently sundered geograph