` Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller & the father of my unborn child. He`s seventeen, I`m thirty-three. I was his teacher. I`d have killed myself by now if I was brave enough. I don`t think it would hurt the baby. His little heart would stop with mine. He wouldn`t feel himself leaving one world of darkness for another, his spirit untangling itself from me.` Melody Shee is alone & in trouble. Her husband doesn`t take her news too well. She doesn`t want to tell her father yet because he`s a good man & this could break him. She`s trying to stay in the moment, but the future is looming
- larger by the day
- while the past won`t let her go. What she did to Breedie Flynn all those years ago still haunts her. It`s a good thing that she meets Mary Crothery when she does. Mary is a young Traveller woman, & she knows more about Melody than she lets on. She might just save Melody`s life. Donal Ryan`s new novel is breathtaking, vivid, moving & redemptive.