Pat Boran's new prose work—
part memoir, part social history, part meditation on community itself.
Childhood will never be the same again.

"Gentle … affectionate … good-humoured … heart-breaking …” (The Irish Times)

“An extraordinary account of an ordinary childhood … an all too
rare positive statement of the value of human existence ….” (The Galway Advertiser)

"He writes with a poet's sensibility... Each individual chapter feels like a short story in itself."
Peter Sheridan, books of the year, Liveline, RTÉ Radio 1.