Pat Mc Murphy

Pat Mc Murphy was born in 1965 in France.
An only child, he took an early interest in writing and spent many hours locked in his room reading and filling notebooks and imaginary tales, in prose or verse. Literature and the origin of words and languages ​​quickly became a passion for him.
In 1996 and 1997, he crosses paths with a strange companion, Death, who mows down several very close friends around him in fifteen months. So he leaves, in search of change and for a long time to come. The idea of ​​traveling the world haunts his mind. Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand and India will be the stages of this journey from which he will return “changed”. From his travels around the world and his many encounters, he comes back as a worshiper of life and a citizen of the world; he gives, listens, advises and works a lot. His watchwords become “build”, “build” and of course “dream” … He comes back mostly with a project, to write a novel. And the least what can be said is that the project is terribly ambitious. After 11 months of travel and a 166-line poem in Alexandrines as the first synopsis, he embarked on 4 years of research and writing. Here again, it is night that he chooses as his source of inspiration and he locks himself in a cottage in Pas de Calais as in a tomb to give birth to his work.
The result is breathtaking according to the first comments. Historical novel or Celtic legend, his novel establishes itself as a rebirth in one of the darkest periods of the Irish history; a hundred characters, a historical plot rich in anecdotes and events of the time and above all an absolutely sublime Quest.