Critical Praise

“Fantastic... an honest, beautifully detailed book and an entertaining read.”

—Diana Gabaldon, The Washington Post

“A fantastical treat.”

—People

“Simultaneously sweeping and intricate... Tompkins’s amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue, magic and mayhem, faeries, Vikings, legates, kings and queens, angels and goddesses, this is one wild and breathless ride.”

—Karen Joy Fowler

“Plundering the treasure chest of human myths, from mysterious biblical giants to ferocious Celtic faeries, Tompkins has created a fantasy adventure with the shifting perspectives of dreamscape. A novel rich and strange.”

—Geraldine Brooks