The Devil to Pay

In The Devil to Pay, HUGH RYAN tells the true story of Alice and Petronilla - portrayed against a backdrop of the struggles between Norman and Gael - bringing to life a remarkable tapestry of this pivotal era in Irish history

Hugh Ryan is author of five previous novels: The Kybe, Ancestral Voices, On Borrowed Ground, Reprisal, and In the Shadow of the Ombu Tree. He is a native of Skerries in north county Dublin, and is also an accomplished artist whose drawings form the headpieces to the chapters of this novel.