The fourth island

Huddled in the sea off the coast of Ireland is a fourth Aran Island, a secret island peopled by the lost, findable only in moments of despair. Whether drowned at sea, trampled by Cromwell's soldiers, or exiled for clinging to the dead, no outsiders reach the island without giving in to dark emotion. Time and again, 'The Fourth Island' weaves a hypnotic pattern with its prose, presaging doom before walking back through the sweet and sour moments of lives not yet lost.