This is Geraldine O Neill's 9th novel and it is up there with the best, This book is a real page turner you totally identify with the characters, We travel between Offaly in Ireland and New Castle and Scotland, if you were never in these places by the end of this book you definately will feel you have visited them. As you turn each page you really don't want it to end and when it does finish you are left wanting more. I think Geraldine O Neill has wonderful highly descriptive work which will have you enthralled from the start .