Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by a short story collection, Children¿s Children (2016), and a flash...

'ORIGINAL and COMPELLING...CHEF'S KISS!' MARIAN KEYES'I gobbled up The Raptures . . . packed with wit and heart, and always utterly absorbing.' LISA MCINERNEYWhen several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious...

From the winner of the 2016 Harper's Bazaar story competition. A father wrestling with a dark past fears the potential violence now inherited by his son, as a doctor arrives at similar concerns regarding his new-born daughter - the...

Children's Children von Carson, Jan

'Absolutely MAGNIFICENT: dark, witty, charming. I LOVED it.' MARIAN KEYES'Original, terrifying, hilarious and memorable.' SUNDAY TIMES IRELAND 'An Agatha Christie-esque whodunnit, a dark supernatural mystery and an account of mass...

When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences.'Absolutely MAGNIFICENT: dark, witty, charming. I LOVED it.' MARIAN...