The Long Song Patrick Flanery The Janissary Tree is a

The Janissary Tree is a bloody

Tolstoy and Conan Doyle

and Jeannie's hardworking mother downstairs

a preserve of ignorance and superstition protected against the advance of reason by its impenetrable moor-fogs

rain-soaked Dublin of early spring

The Long Song Patrick Flanery The Janissary Tree is aYou do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the