OShaughnessey by Jeremy McGuire Hardback Book 9781432745370

quotThe Fivesensesworld is a small island in a vast ocean of all we do not know and cannot see in that ocean there may be faeriesquotThis second story about the intrepid leprechaun OShaughnessey takes up where the first left off that is with Bobby Mahoney grown and with children of his ownHaving lost the ability to see leprechauns as it happens to the best of us as we grow up he takes a trip to Ireland with his daughter to study folklore and get back something that he knows hes lost if only he could put his finger on what that wasTwelve year old Margaret McNeil Mahoney will have none of it She is after all quotthe brightest pupilquot at the La Madeliene Academy for Exceptional young Ladies and has no room in her life for such silliness as leprechauns and faeriesOShaughnessey has persuaded a reclusive Shenache storyteller named Moira McCarthy to take the visitors in hoping that Bobby may eventually be able to see him againMoira McCarthy is quotColdschoolquot as the jarvy who drives the pair to the hilltop farm describes her quotYou wont find a drop of petrol on her farm says it stinks of death and nothing that comes from that far in the bowels of the earth can be good for the...