Welcome back to Ballybucklebo, as vividly brought to life by a master storyteller.Ī Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fictionīy the end of high school, Bunny Lampert is 6’3 with the abs of a ninja turtle and the face of a boy angel.

Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly and their fellow physicians deal with everything from brain surgery to a tractor accident to a difficult pregnancy, there's still time to share the comforting joys and pleasures of this very special place: fly-fishing, boat races, and even the town's very first talent competition! Young doctor Barry Laverty and his wife Sue are anxiously awaiting their first child, but as the community itself prepares to welcome a new decade, the closing months of 1969 bring more than a televised moon landing to Barry, his friends, his neighbors, and his patients, including a number of sticky questions.Ī fledgling doctor joins the practice as a trainee, but will the very upper-class Sebastian Carson be a good fit for the rough and tumble of Irish country life? And as sectarian tensions rise elsewhere in Ulster, can a Protestant man marry the Catholic woman he dearly loves, despite his father's opposition? And who exactly is going to win the award for the best dandelion wine at this year's Harvest Festival?īut while Barry and Dr. In the close-knit Northern Irish village of Ballybucklebo, it's said that a new baby brings its own welcome. Īn Irish Country Welcome is a charming entry in Patrick Taylor's internationally bestselling Irish Country series. Something has awakened inside of him, something that endangers the lives of everyone around him. Soon he realizes that it isn't just the trauma of the accident that haunts Nick. Sam Avery wants to be glad that Nick is alive and coming home, but the accident has stirred up memories that Sam thought were long buried.

He remembers an ominous sense that they were not alone. He remembers how he and Augustin were mysteriously drawn to the Maudit, a remote and scarcely documented peak in the Swiss Alps. His face wrapped in bandages and unable to speak, Nick claims amnesia - but he remembers everything. Nick's own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Echo follows his sensational debut novel, HEX. 'Totally, brilliantly original' Stephen King on HEXĭutch writer Thomas Olde Heuvelt is a Hugo Award winner and has been hailed as the future of speculative fiction in Europe.

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