Winterwood

Redmond Hatch once believed he was in heaven. He was married to the lovely Catherine and was the father of a delightful daughter, Immy. Then he took them both to Winterwood, and nothing was ever the same again.

Winterwood is a novel by Patrick McCabe in which no one and nothing is quite what it seems. Redmond, a devoted husband and father, returns to the secluded mountains where he grew up and meets Auld Pappie Ned. Ned presents himself as a harmless local fiddler and teller of tall tales, but his arrival sets off a chain of events that upends Redmond's life.

Immy mysteriously disappears. Redmond is forced to remember a troubled boyhood he would rather leave behind, and glimpses of an unstable marriage come to light. Everything begins to spiral out of control.

The story is told in a precise, hypnotic voice with a fractured, lyrical quality, and it deals with love, death and identity.