Author:William Yeats,Richard Cave,Richard Cave
The 18 plays are: The Shadowy Waters; Cathleen in Houlihan; The Hour Glass; On Baile's Strabd; The Green Helmet; Deirdre; At the Hawk's Well; The Dreaming of the Bones; The Cat and the Moon; The Only Jealousy of Emer; Calvary; Sophocles' King Oedipus; The Resurrection; The Words Upon the Windwo-FPane; The King of the Great Clock Tower; The herne's Egg; Purgatory; The Death of Cuchulain.
MacDonald skillfully shifts the story backward and forward in time, giving it a mythic quality that allows dark, half-buried secrets to be gracefully and chillingly revealed
—— New York TimesA whopper of a first novel... No fragmentation or contrived narrative devices confuse this hefty and engrossing tale
—— GuardianStunning....The story is riveting, the characters achingly human, and the writing will take your breath away....[MacDonald] has leapt into the first rank of fiction writers
—— Toronto StarA startlingly good novel... authentically tragic and unforgettable
—— Victoria Glendinning , Daily TelegraphSo good I promise you will want to read it more than once
—— Daily TelegraphLingering, sensuous and provocative, Christopher's unusual fantasy is a masterful exercise in the necromancy of poetry ripened into prose
—— Scotland on Sunday