Flight of the Curlew. Life is a Story - story.one

"The squat mushroom-shaped shadow of the Martello tower had come to fall over the both of them as they talked. He felt himself once again suspended in aspic. A man trapped in a gelatinous prison of nationality, of duty, of sacrifice, of tradition, of whatever other lies people tell themselves to get in the way of their own happiness."

Imagination, fantasy, myth and tragedy collide in this darkly-comic, intergenerational tale of Irish life.

Four lives: Cian Mulligan, a student prone to wild flights of fantasy, whose personality bleeds into his writing; Oisín Murphy, a reserved boy trying to find his place in a world he's only just beginning to understand; Siobhán Rafferty, a successful lawyer whose perfect life is coming apart at the seams; and an unnamed man who wanders Dublin's Streets - past and present - lost in the reveries of a bygone age.

Blending humour, formal-daring and memorable characters, Flight of the Curlew weaves a rich tapestry.