Faber & Faber

A Guardian and Observer Fiction Highlight for 2022 and a Bookseller Editor's Choice - the new novel from the Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2021

The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do:\r\n\r\n A wedding feast to conjure and cook\r\nAn infidelity to investigate\r\n A lost soul to set free \r\n\r\nAs the sun rises two star-crossed lovers try to find their way back to one another across this single day.

This volume contains the three plays commonly recognized as the height of OCaseys achievement as a playwright. His tragi-comedy has relevance to the violent politics in the North and the post-nationalist bewilderments in the Republic.