A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016 Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017 Longlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 20171950 A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest But somehow her baby survives 1976 A mysterious & charming young man returns to the remote coastal village of Mulderrig seeking answers about the mother who it was said had abandoned him on the steps of a Dublin orphanage With the help of its oldest & most eccentric inhabitant he will force the village to give up its ghosts Nothing not even the dead can stay buried forever