It is 1916 and Europe is at war. From the poverty of the Dublin slums twelve-year-old Jimmy Conway is pulled between the British Army and the rebels in the Easter Rising. Real history seen through the eyes of a child from a master storyteller.
A Child's eye view of the 1916 rebellion, the story of a young boy caught up in a pivotal event in Irish history. Its sequel, "A Winter Of Spies", is also published this month.