The Copper Beech

In the Irish town of��Schancarrig, the young people carve their initials--and��those of their loves-into the copper beech tree in��front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father��Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes��on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims,��the village doctor, who knows all the rest,��realizes that not everything in the placid village is��what it seems.From the Hardcover edition.