The Inheritance

It’s 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O’ Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in the stunning Beara Peninsula. When a neighbour dies unexpectedly, Marlo takes over his minibus service to Cork. There is nothing regular about the regulars on the bus - especially Sully, a non-verbal 6 year old, who goes nowhere but does the journey back and forth every day, on his own. Marlo is landed with this a strange but compassionate arrangement, fashioned to give the child’s mother respite from his care. Sully’s obsession with an imaginary friend in the ancient oak forests of Glengarriff slowly unveils its terrible secrets - a 400-hundred-year-old tragedy reveals itself.

Cauvery Madhavan was born and educated in India and is the author of Paddy Indian, The Uncoupling and The Tainted. Cauvery moved to Ireland thirty-three years ago and has been in love with the country ever since. She lives with her husband and three children in beautiful County Kildare.