Shortlisted for the IMPAC award and twice nominated for the Booker, David Foster is an award-winning writer whose latest novel is a fable set in Dark Ages Ireland as a woodcutter journeys on a quest to find the lost key to the round tower in which the King has locked his daughter. The reward for finding the key is the princess’s hand in marriage and the future throne to the kingdom. After a lifetime’s quest in which much is revealed, the woodcutter finds that the land where stories end is at the edge of the world, and it reminds him of somewhere he’s been before…