Award winning writer Cauvery Madhavan was born in India and moved to Ireland thirty eight years ago. Her first two books Paddy Indian and The Uncoupling (both with Penguin India and BlackAmber, UK)were published to wide critical acclaim. Her third novel, The Tainted, (HopeRoad, UK and Speaking Tiger, India) was chosen by Laureate Sebastian Barry for his Laureate Picks 2020. In the same year it was also one of An Post Book Awards’ Top Summer Reads . The book was awarded the runner-up prize in SAHR Prize for Military Fiction and chosen by The Times, UK, for their list of top 40 Historical Fiction novels. Cauvery was a proud ambassador for the Play It Forward Fellowship and served as a judge for the Irish Novel Fair 2022. She lives with her husband in County Kildare and is working on her fifth novel.

‘A story brimful of love and the power of forgiveness. I loved seeing West Cork through Cauvery's eyes’GRAHAM NORTON'A compelling modern Irish novel taking in the complexities of religion, culture and family life in rural communities interwoven with the true history of The Long March of O’Sullivan Beare’ MAGGIE GEE‘I absolutely loved this novel!’ DONAL RYAN‘The stunning landscape of Beara becomes one of the characters in itself, holding onto, repeating and rewriting its stories. Wonderful.’ NICOLA CHESTER, nature writer, author of On Gallows Down‘A sumptuous, moving evocation of landscape, history and the human spirit, a lush, green novel with a beautiful, beating heart’ SEÁN HEWITT, Poet'With echoes of McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun and a tincture of the magical realism of a Márquez, Cauvery Madhavan brings the characters of the Beara peninsula, as well as its tragic history, to vivid life in The Inheritance' MYLES DUNGAN, RTE1‘A immensely powerful and arresting read’ NEIL HEGARTY, Novelist and Co-curator of the Belfast Book Festival‘A wise novel, a compelling story and an unforgettable read’ RÓNÁN HESSION, Author of Ghost Mountain‘This extraordinary novel is breathtaking… A book to be read and re read and cherished’ NAMITA GOKHALE, Writer and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival‘A compelling and thoroughly satisfying read’ BARBARA SCULLY, Writer and Broadcaster‘Wonderfully crafted characters and vivid descriptions that make the novel a memorable page turner’ MIHIR BOSE, journalist and author