Kim Batchelor - Writer of magical realism and other imaginative fiction
Description: A story for readers aged 10 and older
On the night of her twelfth birthday Lyric Doherty hears a song for the first of three times, a song that calls her into the woods just outside her family’s home. It lures her to a place where small trinkets are left for her without explanation. Lyric comes to believe that the song and the objects have something to do with her mother, a mother whom she barely remembers. Her grandmother Maeve told her that her mother left her, her father and brother years before without saying a word. Her mother’s absence le
The Doherty family (Lyric, her father Michael and brother Padraig) lives up the hillside from the small village of Na Crainn, with little houses on little lanes...
Read more about the Village Na Crainn about the author, kim batchelor Lyric Doherty was born on an October evening, while Celtic music played...
Kim Batchelor - Writer of magical realism and other imaginative fiction