Dark Cloud Over Muckish: A story about family, identity and loss set amidst the hills of Donegal

When Glaswegian Paul O'Donaghue ends up in lockdown after travelling to a small village on the north coast of Donegal for his mother's funeral, he's not unduly worried. After all, Mullaghbeg, with its green fields, rugged Atlantic coastline and a plethora of childhood memories, waiting to be unlocked, provides the perfect antidote to the doom and gloom of an outside world ravaged mercilessly by the Covid pandemic.But Paul soon discovers that life in his rural haven is not all about coastal walks and afternoons devoted to watching A Place in the Sun. When not feuding with his land-grabbing neighbour, or being interrogated by the Gardai, he's worrying about the contents of the holdall he has stashed under his bed, and the prospect of a hitman appearing any minute at his front door. In the interim, he finds himself negotiating a world populated by an assortment of quirky characters, where eccentricity and the unorthodox become his 'new normal'.A 400 km road trip in a hearse, however, was not something he had envisaged!