It is 1972: a group of teenagers are spending a month in a Donegal Gaeltacht, learning Irish language and culture from their teachers and the local community.
Liberated for the first time from the restricting reins of parental control, they respond to the untamed landscape of river, hill and sea, finding in it unnerving echoes of their own submerged - and now emerging - wildnesses.
In this richly complex novel, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, one of Ireland's foremost contemporary novelists, uses the expe.
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