The Honey Spike

Breda Claffey has set her heart on returning to Kerry. For in Kerry is the Honey Spike, the 'lucky' hospital in which her child must be born. No other spike will do. But she and Martin are far from home, in the northernmost tip of Ireland - the first Southern tinkers ever to make the journey - and Kerry is a long, wearisome distance by cart. THE HONEY SPIKE evokes an Ireland which has remained unaltered for centuries. Its people live as they have always lived; putting their faith in God and in magic, in religion and superstition, but their greatest belief of all is in life itself.