A Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, Seamus Deane's transfixing novel us set in postwar Northern Ireland during the 1950s--a time when the unquiet ghosts of the Troubles walk along the changelings of Celtic legend--as it tells the story of a young boy trying to uncover the secrets of the grown-up world. "A novel suffused with magical loveliness".--"The New York Times Book Review".