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Search      Gerry Adams   Ken Bruen   Paul Charles   Walter Macken   Manchán Magan   John Maher   Sam Millar   Alice Taylor PJ Curtis   The Lightning Tree   Format: Paperback original   Category: Fiction   ISBN: 0 86322 347 8   Publication Date: Available   Description This unique novel tells the story of one woman’s remarkable life, lived out in the harshly beautiful landscape of the Burren. A life which began in the shadow of the Great Famine and ended as electricity began to reach the byways of the west of Ireland. It is a story told by Mariah, a woman healer who lived in harmony not only with the special environment of the Burren but with the spirits of past generations; a woman who drank deep from the well of traditional wisdom and customs, yet whose view of the world resonates with meaning for the present and future. It is a story of love surprisingly found and tragically lost; of the struggle of an independent woman who was viewed with suspicion, whose healing powers were sought by many yet condemned from the pulpit. “Mariah’s voice comes from an Ireland in which there was time and space to attend to the delicate details of both the natural and the supernatural worlds. In PJ Curtis’s hands, her story becomes a poignant elegy for that more beautiful Ireland.” Nuala O’Faolain PJ Curtis has been a professional broadcaster, record producer, author and music historian. He has worked in Nashville, Memphis and Phoenix but has returned to his native place, the Burren, and to his memories of meeting as a ten-year-old the remarkable Mariah. He has won many awards for radio documentaries and other work, and he is the author of three previous books. Author PJ Curtis has been a professional broadcaster, record producer, author and music historian. He has worked in Nashville, Memphis and Phoenix but has returned to his native place, the Burren, and to his memories of meeting as a ten-year-old the remarkable Mariah. He has won many awards for radio documentaries and other work, and he is the author of three previous books: a novel, One Night In The Life of RV Mulrooney, Notes From The Heart - A Celebration of Irish Traditional Music, and The Music of Ghosts – A Burren Miscellany.