Sunset on the Window-Panes

One of Macken’s finest novels, long out of print but now once more available in a completely reset and redesigned edition. Set in the Galway vilage of Boola, it tells the story of Bart O'Brien, a strong wilful young man who leaves trouble and harm in his wake. As always in Macken’s novels, there is a host of memorable secondary characters, and an unfailing accuracy and warmth in the depiction of the life of the ordinary people of the west of Ireland.