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Synopsis
When it is stormy the Island of horses is lit by a strange silvery light and people say that the legendary Spanish horses are trying to land. Pat and Danny can't resist the longing to go to that wild and secret place. They discover the truth about the legend and also find danger.
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About the Author
Eilís Dillon (1920-1994) wrote more than thirty books for young people, as well as fiction for adults, including the best-selling historical novel Across the Bitter Sea, about the struggle for Irish independence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With few exceptions, her young people’s books are set in the west of Ireland, in small communities struggling to make a living on the islands and along the Atlantic coast. As the critic Declan Kiberd wrote in Dillon’s obituary: “What Laura Ingalls Wilder did for children’s literature in the US, she achieved in Ireland, imparting a sure historical sense in books such as The Singing Cave. That interest in history was a natural expression of her curiosity of mind, and of her family inheritance."
Review
"Eilís Dillon weaves a magic Irish spell and an A-1 mystery-adventure story, taut with action and suspense...The tale sparkles with the atmosphere of the sea and of small-town life."
— The New York Times Book Review
"A very good story about two boys who set out to explore a deserted island off the Connemara coast, and about the adventures that follow. The people are real, the Irish background rings true, and there is a hard, spare poetry in the telling of the story."
— The Guardian
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- PublisherFaber Children's Books
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0571161979
- ISBN 13 9780571161973
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages1
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