DATE OF RELEASE: 9 APR 2026
From the award-winning author of The Raptures and The Fire Starters, a stunning, imaginative novel about a community living on a small group of islands. Sometimes a utopia is not all that it seems... In Few & Far Between, award-winning writer Jan Carson, imagines an alternative version of Northern Ireland’s recent past.
A prime minister with a mad plan to create a new county. An archipelago of haunted islands. A community seeking refuge from the Troubles.
The perfect place to escape to - or so it appears. It’s summer 2017 and the last few residents of the Lough Neagh Archipelago are facing imminent eviction. The flood planned to combat a devastating algae outbreak will submerge their homes, forcing them back to the Mainland for the first time in fifty years.
How will they cope with modern life? Will the Ark give up its secrets before it sinks? Can they leave the past behind?
