Few and Far Between

From a “deeply talented” (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning writer comes an alternate history of Northern Ireland’s recent past that follows the last remaining residents of a haunted archipelago at risk of losing their home forever. In 1958, soon-to-be Northern Irish Prime Minister Terrence O’Neill proposed draining Lough Neagh—the largest lake in Ireland—to create a seventh county for the North. O’Neill was widely mocked for his ludicrous idea, but in Few and Far Between, Belfast-based writer Jan Cars…