A Second Life

A new series from New Island, putting twentieth-century Irish classics back on the shelves for a new readership. The first of the series includes acclaimed and well-loved authors Benedict Kiely, Anthony Cronin and Dermot Bolger.

Following a car crash, for several seconds, Dublin photographer Sean Blake is clinically dead. When he plummets back to life, it is into a world which, for him, has profoundly changed.

This is not the first time that he has been given a second life. At the age of six weeks he was taken from his mother, when as a young girl in rural Ireland, she was forced to give up her baby for adoption. Beginning the quest for his own identity, Sean determines to find his natural mother. This leads him on a strange and absorbing journey.