The extraordinary new story collection from one of Irelands greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter Break. Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted shortstory writer and novelist whose work like that of John McGahern William Trevor Edna OBrien or Colm Toibin is deceptively simple on the surface but carries a turbulent undertow. Everywhere the dark currents of violence persecution and regret pull at his subject matter family love the making of art Catholicism the Troubles an