Davie Armstrong watches as his master, Angus Mc Bain, publicly thrashes young Molly Geary for refusing to name the man who made her pregnant. & yet, only an hour later, Davie sees the two of them alone in the malthouse, & learns that the child is Mc Bain's. But the master's wife is also pregnant. & a few months later the birth of the Mc Bains' son Amos unleashes violence & tragedy at the farm. Born emotionally & physically crippled, Amos will learn to wield power of frightening intensity over everyone around him.. . Set at the end of the nineteenth century, Feathers in the Fire is a deliciously dark tale & a beautifully imagined novel.