The Bogman

At sixteen, Cahal, an illegitimate orphan, makes the journey from Dublin to the west of Ireland to his grandfather's farm. After ten years in an institution, he is finally free to return to the small village of his birth. His tyrannical grandfather soon arranges for him to marry - for money. But Cahal's feelings for a local girl with a past are strong... In his writing, Macken captures the isolation and poverty of the village - it's closed attitudes, its frozen social mores... and its deeply unforgiving nature.MacKen, Walter is the author of 'The Bogman', published 2005 under ISBN 9780753199688 and ISBN 0753199688.