Highly acclaimed suspense writer Patrick McCabe has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for both The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. He has been hailed as 'a dark genius of incongruity and the grotesque' by the Sunday Observer. In Winterwood, Redmond Hatch takes his family on vacation to the secluded mountains where he grew up, only to have his life shattered by a disastrous chain of events that quickly spirals out of control. 'One of Ireland's finest ...'-New York Times Book Review