The Girl in the Bog, Keith Donohue
The Girl in the Bog, Keith Donohue
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The Girl in the Bog

Author: Keith Donohue

Narrator: John Keating

Unabridged: 11 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/12/2024


Synopsis

Ancient heroes from Irish mythology and folklore come to life in the modern world in this dark, atmospheric story. At once a thrilling chase novel and a wry reimagining of Ireland's oldest epic.

Everybody is after the girl in the bog.

One morning in a field in Connemara, a farmer unearths the body of a young woman, two thousand years old, preserved under layers of peat. Later that evening, she awakens in unfamiliar modern Ireland, ripping a hole through space and time and setting awhirl old animosities and long-held grudges.

Shadowy figures follow her from the pagan past, and each emerges with a claim on the girl from the bog. With help from a trio of wannabe teenage witches, she goes on the run. Joining in the chase is an American archaeologist who wants to keep the discovery for herself and two befuddled farmers trapped in the plot. Hosts of fairies out for the night work their magic and mischief, and in the blue hour before sunrise, the saga unfolds in a battle for the ages.

Part fantasy, part mystery, part thriller, part send-up, this comic and poignant love song to Irish literature and the gift of gab does not merely bend genres; it braids them into Celtic knots.

About Keith Donohue

Keith Donohue is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Stolen Child, The Angels of Destruction, and Centuries of June. His work has been translated into two dozen languages, and his articles have appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post, among other publications. A graduate of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Donohue also holds a PhD in English from the Catholic University of America. He lives in Maryland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Debra on August 08, 2024

Atmospheric, dark, and intriguing, The Girl in the Bog was a unique and interesting book which blends folklore, fantasy, mystery, mythology, and thrilling elements. A farmer has unearthed a girl in the bog. She was placed there two thousand years ago and has been preserved by the peat for all that t......more

Goodreads review by Keith on March 25, 2024

My sixth book. Due out August 2024.......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on February 22, 2025

Well this one starts amazing, while the second half is mostly unedited chaos (at least it feels that way). The first half feels well-researched and thought out, but the rest just throws the entire mythological stanza away for whatever suits. I wish this would have been about a girl in the bog and the......more

Goodreads review by Jaimes_Mystical_Library on July 26, 2024

This was a unique and atmospheric read. I loved the author’s writing style as he told this tale. This book immediately had me captivated by its intriguing storyline and the overall concept of this. It took me on quite an adventure! This book does a great job of blending the genres of fantasy and thri......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on April 12, 2025

This was not the book I thought it was going to be. The descriptions I saw about it made it seem like it was going to be a creepy horror novel about a bog woman come back to life with an infusion of Irish mythology. That would have been cool. Instead it was a silly comedy story where barely anything......more