Story steeped in voices of times past

{ "b" : "The Lightning Tree," , "cite" : "by PJ Curtis, Brandon, €15."}

{ "b" : "The Lightning Tree," , "cite" : "by PJ Curtis, Brandon, €15."}

PJ Curtis is one of the most respected and innovative radio music broadcasters in Ireland, a man whose eclectic talents, it seems to me, have not always been appreciated by station bosses in this era of broadcasting conformity.

He is a native of the Burren in County Clare and the Lightning Tree, his second novel, is steeped in the ...