This collection of short stories is a slow burner, in the best sense of the phrase. Each of the 13 stories stand alone, glimpses of other lives on journeys through very human themes – family, love, grief and death. Collectively, there is mystery, and tension, that connects these contemporary narratives with something that just might be other-worldly, each fractured character allied historically through their pasts. Lamenting the loss of  the man who once united them, The Captain – chieftain, messiah – leader of the pack. Now dead. Murdered. His loss is palpable as his disciples struggle in the void of the aftermath, a sense of trauma weaving through each story.

Published by New Island, more information on Once We Sang Like Other Men HERE

Caroline E Farrell is the writer and producer of films, In Ribbons and Adam, and is the author of the novel, LADY BETH.