Ööloom, Kate Thompson

Hoping to wean 14-year-old Bobby from his Dublin life of mindless violence, drugs and car theft, Bobby's mother moves the family into an old ramshackle country house. Bobby's anxiety and incessant quarrels with his mother are described with painful sharpness, in addition to which we hear whispered stories about the previous residents of the old house - a couple who killed their child because they believed he was a foster child of fairies.