Charlie Bird knows nothing. His family history is a blank page, and every revelation is a genuine surprise. His only starting-point is a grandfather from Bermuda who brought electricity to Macroom... but why did he change his name?
From Cork to The West Indies, from Portsmouth to The Battle of The Nile, from the unerring love of the sea to the illicit love of a brother's wife, Charlie pieces together six generations of his family tree from scratch, and ends up back where he began, but very much the wiser.
