Distant Voices

This voice, this Harald, was haunting her dreams, speaking to her in his strange accent, drawing her into another life.. . . She began to feel as if he had burrowed beneath her skin and was using her sleep to spin dreams thronged with strange men horn long ago, their distant voices straining to be heard. Each night Ellie is haunted by a mysterious figure who spins stories of sea voyages, exile and death while she sleeps. His appeal to Ellie, Only you will know where to find me leads her to cross the border from Deny into Donegal where she makes a startling discovery on a lonelv headland. Set in the north-west of Ireland, Maeve Friel's book is a powerful and unusual evocation of the Viking era.