On a remote island off the West coast of Ireland in the 1970s, young farmer Miceal catches sight of a girl on a beach with long hair so blonde it could be white. Befriending the girl and her travelling companions, a world of possibility opens up to Miceal - but where there’s opportunity, there is also peril.
Juanita Casey’s The Horse of Selene (1971) is a cult classic ready to be rediscovered by a new generation of readers. Drawing on her own life and speaking for her marginalized community, Casey offers a feminist and class-conscious story that explores the eternal choices of youth, between the comfort of a stifling domesticity and the promise and risk of the unknown, characterized in the incomparable wildness of the West of Ireland. The bestselling Casey takes her place alongside such writers as JM Synge and Kevin Barry - the missing connection between the two.
14 май 2023
