26th June,1963; President Kennedy arrives in Dublin to excited crowds. Nearby, in County Kildare, trouble brews at the 'The Hall' as Justin Peregrine Montague, a handsome teenager, is forbidden by his wealthy father from seeing the charming daughter of a Montague estate worker, the one person who really loves him.

"A brilliant debut!" (The Sun)

"Tensions mount relentlessly." (Carol Birch, Times Literary Supplement)

"Packed with hilarious incident and pathos." (Catherine Taylor, The Guardian)

"Fantastically funny, sad, just plain magic!" (Emma Fellowes, Downton Abbey)

"The funniest, most beguiling, cruelly dysfunctional family ever". (John Boorman)

"As bullets are fired in Dallas, real violence erupts in Kildare." TLS