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Kate Thompson |
| Kate Thompson was born in Yorkshire in 1956. She has won the Bisto Book of the Year Award three times: for The Beguilers (2001), The Alchemist’s Apprentice (2002) and Annan Water (2005). She has trained racehorses in England and the USA, and travelled extensively in India, working and learning. Kinvara, a tiny village on the west coast of Ireland where Kate now lives, is the setting for The New Policeman, a book full of her passion for story and music. Kate recently completed an MA in Irish Traditional Music Performance at the University of Limerick. |
| Everyone in Kinvara is conscious that time is flying past, faster and faster – to such an extent that when JJ asks his mother what she would like for her birthday, she asks for more time. When he sets out to buy his mother some time, he discovers the fate of a flute which will provide some clues to his problems. JJ makes the transition to Tir na n’Og, the land of eternal youth, where he finds that the fairy people are also having a problem with time and it falls to his lot to locate the leak between the two parallel worlds. |
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