Siobhan's Pearl - Forgotten Songs and Legends [eKönyv: epub, mobi]

There comes a point in a person's life when the question is no longer where to go next -- but whether it ever made sense not to leave sooner.Paddy O'Connor is a blacksmith with a settled life. He has work, a family, a past. And yet one morning he wakes to the unsettling feeling that something inside him has fallen silent. A melody. An inner voice that once guided him -- and now calls him back onto the road.This is the chronicle of a northern journey. Of stories that are not always true. Of legends shaped by loss and longing. Of songs once sung -- and perhaps still waiting to be heard. Throughout the novel, forgotten Irish folk melodies emerge alongside the narrative, woven into the story like echoes from the past, accompanying each step of the way."Peter asked me to come up with a motto for the book. I suggested this: 'Be careful what you ask of the fair folk. Because you might get it.' He looked at me -- and typed it straight into the manuscript. I think that's when we knew we had found the heart of the story."-- Kate Marlowe, editorSiobhan's Pearl is a work of magical realism about faith and doubt, memory and homecoming. A novel that suggests the journey we fear most is not the one that leads away -- but the one that brings us back to where we first learned how to listen.