Winterwood

by Patrick McCabe

  Slipping the chocolate bar into his hand, as we lay there together beneath the tall pines, before looking up to see them falling: the very first flakes of the most beautiful winter snow.

  A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

  Patrick McCabe was born in Ireland in 1955. His

  novels include Music on Clinton Street, Cam,

  The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto, both of

  which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

  The Butcher Boy won the Irish Times/Aer Lingus

  Literature Prize in 1992 and was made into a film,

  directed by Neil Jordan, in 1997. The film

  Breakfast on Pluto, also directed by and co-written

  with Neil Jordan, was released in 2006, to great

  acclaim. Patrick McCabe lives in his home town of

  Clones, County Monaghan.

  A NOTE ON THE TYPE

  Linotype Garamond Three - based on seventeenth

  century copies of Claude Garamond's types, cut

  by Jean Jannon. This version was designed for

  American Type Founders in 1917, by Morris

  Fuller Benton and Thomas Maitland Cleland and

  adapted for mechanical composition by Linotype

  in 1936.