books.google.com.au - An epic novel of a boy's coming of age through the religious, political and family conflict that his half-Irish, half-English heritage - and the complex characters of his relatives - create.In 1965, James, a half-English, half-Irish boy, is taken by his mother on a visit home to her Irish village after...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Book_of_Beasts.html?id=fWdabvhTvRQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Book of Beasts