Listen as author Charles Foran discusses the history and context behind the writing of Carolan's Farewell in this series of exclusive videos.

Based on the life of Terence Carolan, a legendary blind composerand harper who travelled the 18th-century Irish countryside, Carolan’sFarewell is gifted writer Charles Foran’s most luminous?and mischievous?novelyet. It is 1737, and the ailing Carolan, having completed an arduous pilgrimage,is returning home across a famine-ravaged Ireland. By his side is Owen Connor,his faithful companion. Master and servant, they are like Don Quixote and SanchoPanza, friends to the end.

A tender, funny, sad and utterly delightful storywith priceless dialogue on every page, Carolan’s Farewell is anote-perfect read.

CHARLES FORAN is an award-winning journalist and author of ten books, including four previous novels. His biography Mordecai: The Life and Times won the Charles Taylor Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Literary Nonfiction and the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award. He holds degrees from the University of Toronto and University College, Dublin. He lives in Toronto.

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