The Draughtsman and the Unicorn

Set variously in Donegal, Dublin, Boston, Nicaragua and Majorca, the stories in The Draughtsman and the Unicorn chart the bittersweet and comic misadventures of his protagonists as they encounter such mysteries as love, betrayal and mortality. A policeman on holidays suddenly confronted with the nature of his trade; a mother haunted by a childhood hoax; a young woman in the stunningly atmospheric title story who fancies herself as the last unicorn.

Ambient and enchanting, Glavin's second short story collection (his first, One For Sorrow) offers a series of slowly revealed, unexpected and often devastating insights into the nuances and vagaries of the human condition.

'Astonishingly accomplished and evocative' --The Irish Times