Captains and the Kings

Winner of the Author''s Club First Novel Award: Alone with melancholic memories of his past, a widower finds new life after striking up a friendship with a village boyIn County Wicklow, south of Dublin, Mr. Prendergast lives alone in the Big House of his village. A remnant of the long-gone days of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, Prendergast''s mansion has been witness to many of the most important yea...