The girl in the bog A novel

Keith Donohue

Book - 2024

Everybody is after the girl in the bog. One morning in a field in Connemara, a farmer unearths the body of a young woman, two thousand years old, preserved under layers of peat. Later that evening, she awakens in unfamiliar modern Ireland, ripping a hole through space and time and setting awhirl old animosities and long-held grudges. Shadowy figures follow her from the pagan past, and each emerges with a claim on the girl from the bog. With help from a trio of wannabe teenage witches, she goes on the run. Joining in the chase is an American archaeologist who wants to keep the discovery for herself and two befuddled farmers trapped in the plot. Hosts of fairies out for the night work their magic and mischief, and in the blue hour before sunr...ise, the saga unfolds in a battle for the ages.

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Subjects
Genres
Fantasy fiction
Witch fiction
Time-travel fiction
Fairy tales
Paranormal fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels
Published
New York : Crooked Lane Books 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Keith Donohue (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
312 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781639108497
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Irish mythology and impish humor collide in Donohue's ambitious sixth outing (after The Motion of Puppets), a supernatural thriller about a 2,000-year-old woman who rises from the dead. One morning, farmer Michael Mullaney sets out for the nearby peat bog to dig turf he can burn for fuel. Instead, he accidentally unearths the remains of a young woman with a rope around her neck, her throat cut, and her skull bashed in. Mullaney realizes he may have made a major archaeological discovery and stashes the woman's body at his home--where she comes to life and identifies herself as Fedelm, a prophet from the Irish epic Táin Bó Cúalinge. This delights Mary Catherine, the teenage granddaughter of one of Mullaney's friends, who considers herself and her two closest friends amateur witches, and causes commotion in the Connemara countryside, which soon populates with warriors and royal personages from Fedelm's past who seek revenge against her. When an American scholar arrives to catalog the commotion, the teenage witches conspire to help Fedelm evade capture. Donohue crowds the narrative with literary allusions and crude double entendres (a team of track and field athletes are "always bragging about the size of their poles"), sometimes at the expense of coherence and character. Still, there's enough audacity and invention on offer to satisfy. Agent: Peter Steinberg, UTA. (Aug.)Correction: A previous version of this review misidentified the author's previous book and misstated the total number of books he has published. The review has also been updated for clarity and accuracy.

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