New York: The Viking Press, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A haunting and powerful novel by this award winning writer - "the tale of a young girl whose Protestant family is driven from its rural Irish home in 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy is in love with Lahardane: the old house itself, the woods,. . The day before her family is scheduled to flee Ireland, leaving the house and furnishings in the care of trusted servants, Lucy runs away. Her parents, finding a scrap of her clothing on the beach, assume the worst." 228 pp. ISBN: 0-67088202X.