Reading in the Dark

A haunted-double childhood. One is imaginary: the Sun-fort of Grianan; the Field of the Disappeared; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away.

The other is actual: the city of Derry in Northern Ireland of the 1940's and 1950's.

The boy narrator grows up in these two worlds, sensing that they are intertwined in mysterious ways.

Lyrically charged and unforgettable, this is one of the finest books ever written about growing up...