Torn from sleep and stripped of her hair, Grace is cast out into an unforgiving Ireland on the cusp of the Great Famine, disguised in a boy's clothes and armed only with her mother's cryptic blessing. When her younger brother Colly follows her into the wilderness, the two embark on a harrowing journey that forces Grace to inhabit multiple identities—bandit, penitent, and ultimately herself. Paul Lynch weaves a profound meditation on survival, love, and destiny through a landscape ravaged by hunger, creating a lyrical coming-of-age epic unlike any famine narrative told before.
