I'll Be The Devil

Synopsis

This dark love story is set in occupied Ireland in 1775.

Knowing that her soldier lover is leaving for England, a local woman unleashes a sequence of events that will result in tragedy for their children.

With poetic fearlessness, Leo Butler looks at what happens when a brutal foreign power is in intimate and callous contact with the primitive heart of an ancient society.

Themes

• History
• PR6102.U85 I44 2008