

Neither he nor Mulderrig can possibly prepare for what’s in store…įrom the moment he arrives, Mahony’s presence completely changes the village. Determined to find out what really happened, Mahony embarks on a pilgrimage back to his hometown, the rural village of Mulderrig. That is, until one night in 1976 while drinking a pint at a Dublin pub, he receives an anonymous note implying that she may have been forced to give him up. Having been abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, Mahony assumed all his life that his mother wanted nothing to do with him.

A charming ne’er-do-well returns to his haunted Irish hometown to uncover the truth about his mother in this “supernaturally skilled debut” ( Vanity Fair) and turns the town-and his life-upside down.
