- Title:
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Winterwood
- Written by:
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Patrick McCabe
- Read by:
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Gerry O'Brien
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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5 hours 55 minutes
- Published:
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November 01 2007
- Available Date:
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November 01 2007
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742011363
- Genres:
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Fiction; Horror; Paranormal; Psychological Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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International bestseller
Award winning author
Shortlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2008
Winner Irish Book Awards / Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year 2007
Shortlisted Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards / Irish Book of the Decade 2010
A chilling, spellbinding and highly original new novel from the prize-winning author of Breakfast on Pluto.
Once, in Kilburn, married to the sugar-lipped Catherine and sharing his daughter Immy's passion for the enchanted kingdom of Winterwood, Redmond Hatch was happy. But then infidelity, betrayal and the 'scary things' from which he would protect his daughter steal into the magic kingdom, and bad things begin to happen.
Now Redmond – once little Red – prowls the barren outlands alone, haunted by the disgraced shade of Ned Strange, a fiddler and teller of tales from his home in the mountainy middle of Ireland.
'He is the fortunate possessor of a savage and unfettered imagination; his books dissect life's miseries with a gleaming comedic scalpel.'
The Times
"Even if you brace yourself for a dark, twisted story, you'll still be creeped out by this tale, set in an Irish mountain town. Redmond Hatch meets storyteller Ned Strange, his alter ego of sorts. As Redmond describes his life and their encounters, secrets are revealed. Scenes shift back and forth over the years, with the story moving through pubs, apartments, jobs, and a haunting place called Winterwood. Apart from Ned's stories, there is limited dialogue, leaving McCabe to rely on vivid descriptions and on narrator Gerry O'Brien to create an atmosphere with a range of moods. His sole American character comes off as more Midwestern than upstate New York, but his Irish voices are both colorful and filled with emotion as the tormented tale unfolds."
AudioFile Magazine
"A new, chilling, spellbinding and highly original novel from the prize-winning author of "Breakfast On Pluto" and "The Butcher Boy", both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Winner of the Irish Novel Of The Year 2006, this is a mix of domestic drama, folk tale and fantasy. 'This is McCabe's greatest work... A sustained achievement of often dazzling brilliance...' – Irvine Welsh"
The Guardian
'Patrick McCabe's Winterwood is a disturbing but brilliant evocation of modern rural Ireland.'
Irvine Welsh
'An eerily kaleidoscopic mix that reads like a modern rendering of Poe.'
The Telegraph
'McCabe has written a brilliant and disturbing profile of an individual and a place in often violent transition.'
The Guardian
'A masterpiece.'
The Observer