Himself by Jess Kidd SIGNED COPY

1950. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest. But, somehow, her baby survives.

1976. A mysterious and charming young man returns to the remote coastal village of Mulderrig, seeking answers about the mother who, it was said, had abandoned him on the steps of a Dublin orphanage. With the help of its oldest and most eccentric inhabitant, he will force the village to give up its ghosts.

Nothing, not even the dead, can stay buried forever.

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017Longlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2017

Format:Paperback / softback 368 pages
Publisher:Canongate Books
Imprint:Canongate Books
Edition:Main
ISBN:9781786899835
Published:2 Jan 2020
Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Weight:256g