A dark, strange, village-haunted Irish novel set in the west of Ireland, where Danny Mulcahy is trying, badly, to imagine some route out of the place that made him. 

The book moves between village life, buried family history, local myth, suppressed violence, and the watching presence of the “Spook of Spit” — an exiled, spectral witness who sees what the living try to tidy. Brennan writes with that Irish rural voltage, all at once funny, grim, lyrical, suspicious of redemption, and extremely aware that a place can love you and eat you with the same mouth.

Good for readers of Kevin Barry, Max Porter, Jon McGregor, Lisa McInerney or Daisy Johnson. There’s grief, gossip, half-truths, escape fantasies, historical residue, all the grimy things.

Époque Press. Paperback. 2025. Near new / excellent condition.