Originally published in Great Britain in 2020 as The butchers.

Every year, �Una prepares for her father to disappear with seven other men to traverse the Irish countryside; these eight fabled men form the Butchers, a group that roams from farm to farm, enacting ancient methods of cattle slaughter. Moving between events of 1996 and the present, the book offers a glimpse into the modern tensions that surround these men and their complex meanings for the characters �Una, her mother Gr�a, farmer Fionn, his teenage son Davey, and photographer Ronan; Ronan sees the Butchers as representatives of an older, more folkloric Ireland, and seeks to capture this world image by image--a lake, a cottage, and his most striking photo: a man, hung upside down in a pose of unspeakable violence. --Adapted from publishers' website.