'This powerful and poignant novel provides John B. Keane with a passport to the highest levels of Irish literature' - Irish Press 'The Bodhran Makers is a tale that goes straight to the heart - the heart of the reader as well as the heart of the matter. Keane gets beneath the skin of Irish culture, past and present, and provides a view tourists will never see' - Bloomsbury Review

Author Biography

John B. Keane is the author of more than thirty best-selling books and some of Ireland's most perennially popular plays, including The Field, Sive, Sharon's Grave, Many Young Men of Twenty and Big Maggie. He lives in Listowel, Co. Kerry.