Ciarrai, 1923. I laethanta deireanacha an chogaidh chathartha tugtar ordu don chaptaen Mait Dalaigh: "An dispatch-box san, caithfidh se a bheith sa Seanabhaile roimh an gcuigiu la, sin cuig la. Agus e seo a thabhairt leat in eineacht - mar phriosunach."I dtraidisin Dr Zhivago, Gone with the Wind agus For Whom the Bell Tolls insonn Sen Mac Mathna scal Mhait Dlaigh, fear nach raibh riamh le bean; scal Chit Bhric, bean g a bhfuil a saol caite aici ag sclbhaocht; agus scal Bhreen, gnach slachtmhar a bhfuil a chrois fin le hiompar aig e tr shneachta shlibhte Chiarra agus ina chogadh dearg ar gach taobh de."Leabhar aoibhinn....N leagfaidh t uait an leabhar seo. T greann, seanbhlas, traidisin, nualaocht, ndr, agus cad ceist nua sa leabhar seo. Diseoidh ainmneacha sa leabhar seo taibhs as beathisnis n trimhse sin ort ach is daonna go mr na carachtair anseo." -Mire N Fhinneadha, Foinse"Tuigeann Mac Mathna sceolaocht; tuigeann s ad, saint, sotal, urraim agus gr, agus bonn iomln lir na nithe sin ag iomarscil lena chile sna carachtair a chruthaonn s." -Pl Muir, Beo"Mistir i mbun pinn." -ils N Anluain, The Irish TimesKerry, 1923, as civil war rages all around them captain Mat Daly is ordered to present himself in Seanabhaile within five days with a despatch box... and a prisoner. In the tradition of Dr Zhivago, Gone with the Wind agus For Whom the Bell Tolls Sen Mac Mathna tells the story of Mat Daly, a man who has never been with a woman; of Cit Bric, a young woman who has spent her life in slavery; and of Breen, a handsome young man who has his own cross to carry through the snowbound mountains of Kerry, as the civil war rages all around them."A master at work." -Irish Times"A beautiful book. You won't put it down." -Foinse