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It’s 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O’Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in the stunning Beara Peninsula. When a neighbour dies unexpectedly, Marlo takes over his minibus service to Cork. There is nothing regular about the regulars on the bus – especially Sully, a non-verbal 6 year old, who goes nowhere but does the journey back and forth every day, on his own. Marlo is landed with this a strange but compassionate arrangement, fashioned to give the child’s mother respite from his care. Sully’s obsession with an imaginary friend in the ancient oak forests of Glengarriff slowly unveils its terrible secrets – a 400-hundred-year-old tragedy reveals itself.
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‘A story brimful of love and the power of forgiveness. I loved seeing West Cork through Cauvery's eyes’GRAHAM NORTON
'A compelling modern Irish novel taking in the complexities of religion, culture and family life in rural communities interwoven with the true history of The Long March of O’Sullivan Beare’ MAGGIE GEE
‘I absolutely loved this novel!’ DONAL RYAN
‘The stunning landscape of Beara becomes one of the characters in itself, holding onto, repeating and rewriting its stories. Wonderful.’ NICOLA CHESTER, nature writer, author of On Gallows Down
‘A sumptuous, moving evocation of landscape, history and the human spirit, a lush, green novel with a beautiful, beating heart’ SE�N HEWITT, Poet
'With echoes of McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun and a tincture of the magical realism of a M�rquez, Cauvery Madhavan brings the characters of the Beara peninsula, as well as its tragic history, to vivid life in The Inheritance' MYLES DUNGAN, RTE1
‘A immensely powerful and arresting read’ NEIL HEGARTY, Novelist and Co-curator of the Belfast Book Festival
‘A wise novel, a compelling story and an unforgettable read’ R�N�N HESSION, Author of Ghost Mountain
‘This extraordinary novel is breathtaking… A book to be read and re read and cherished’ NAMITA GOKHALE, Writer and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival
‘A compelling and thoroughly satisfying read’ BARBARA SCULLY, Writer and Broadcaster
‘Wonderfully crafted characters and vivid descriptions that make the novel a memorable page turner’ MIHIR BOSE, journalist and author
