The Scar Book cover type:Paperback capturing the remote and sparsely

capturing the remote and sparsely populated West of Ireland and its islands – places of breathtaking beauty and tranquillity – the midlands and Dublin’s streetscapes

his knowledge of unique local lore

Every major art movement since the 1920s is admirably represented in the book from Expressionism to the present multi-faceted artistic landscape

But there was the problem of choice

We read of a comical sojourn in France with Behan

The Scar Book cover type:Paperback capturing the remote and sparselyA graceful and penetrating memoir interweaving the authors descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of this illness. At the age of twenty seven, married, living in New York, and working in book design, Mary Cregan gives birth to her first child, a daughter she names Anna. But its apparent that something is terribly wrong, and two days later, Anna diesplunging Cregan into suicidal despair. Decades later, sustained by her work, a