Story Of A Girl

"The girl of this story is a clairvoyant. To the other children in the local National School, she is an 'imbissil', a creature of the margins. But she is a lightning-conductor for all that happens in one small Irish country town and through her are channeled all the dreams and desires of its exuberant inhabitants." "The girl's grandmother lives in a beech tree, 'screeching, singing ... fragments constantly spilling out of her memory-box'; Vera McGettrick's fiance blows his head off a week before their wedding; Liz Duffy, the 'apostate' who marries a protestant ('the other crowd'), is denounced as a 'slut, whore and rip'; and the lovelorn ghost of Dockery the draper, is 'still to be seen fishing on winter evenings'."--BOOK JACKET.

TOM MAC INTYRE, born in Cavan in 1931, is the author of many works of fiction, poetry and plays, including Stories of the Wandering Moon (2000) and The Great Hunger and The Gallant John-Joe (2002)