Tam O'Flaherty grew up believing the magnificent ships that sailed the sea-roads beyond the wild and untamed shore where he lived with his father, were like the see heads of rushes ready to burst open and strew the beaches - not with seeds - but with riches beyond their wildest dreams.

Piano Bay is a powerful story of morality set in the 1870s that is as relevant today when personal greed pervades our societies.

A setting that relates to the past of any country just as the theme relates to all peoples...

Tam riding his bull in the stark but compelling beauty of an untouched shore...

The desperation of sailors when their ship is driven to wreck and their fury towards the wreckers...

The survivors thirst for justice with the lynch rope pitted against the native innocence of a boy who, with his father brought them to grief.

And when the story seems to reach its inevitable conclusion, there evolves a brilliant and satisfying ending.
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