A charming ne'er-do-well returns to his haunted Irish hometown to
uncover the truth about his mother in this "supernaturally skilled
debut" (Vanity Fair) and turns the town--and his life--upside
down.Having been abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, Mahony assumed all
his life that his mother wanted nothing to do with him. That is, until
one night in 1976 while drinking a pint at a Dublin pub, he receives an
anonymous note implying that she may have been forced to give him up.
Determined to find out what really happened, Mahony embarks on a
pilgrimage back to his hometown, the rural village of Mulderrig. Neither
he nor Mulderrig can possibly prepare for what's in store... From the
moment he arrives, Mahony's presence completely changes the village.
Women fall all over themselves. The real and the fantastic are blurred.
Chatty ghosts rise from their graves with secrets to tell, and local
preacher Father Quinn will do anything to get rid of the slippery young
man who is threatening the moral purity of his parish. A spectacular new
addition to the grand Irish storytelling tradition, Himself "is a darkly
comic tale of murder, intrigue, haunting and illegitimacy...wickedly
funny" (Daily Express).
