Kidd has imagination to die for * * Guardian * * Otherworldly and wonderfully original * * Stylist * * Wonderfully entertaining * * The Times * * Mixes up murder and mayhem with the eerily supernatural . . . Utterly unputdownable * * Sunday Express * * A rollicking tale . . . breaking down the barriers between mystery story and comedy of manners, mixing magical realism and crime fiction * * Guardian * * PRAISE FOR HIMSELF: Very funny, very profound, very moving . . . One of the finest books of the year -- SIMON MAYO * * BBC Radio 2 Book Club * * An intriguing story of family secrets and haunting -- ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY, author of The Loney This striking literary debut is a darkly comic tale of murder, intrigue, haunting and illegitimacy . . . wickedly funny * * Daily Express * * I love this book. It's a magic realist murder mystery set in rural Ireland, in which the dead play as important a part as the living. It's one of those books that has you smiling as you read, and that you plan to read again very soon. -- LOUIS DE BERNIERES, author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin In lyrical prose that is by turns touchingly tender and violent, Kidd's brilliantly bold debut mixes murder and mayhem with the eerily supernatural, and throws in a dash of laugh-out-loud humour for good measure * * Psychologies * *