WINNER of the KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards Honour Award for Illustration. Shortlisted
for the 2024 An Post Irish Book Awards. Shortlisted for the 2025 English 4-11 Picture Book
Awards. " Colfer and McCarthy are a dazzling duo in this endlessly entertaining retelling of
banshee folklore. McCarthy's illustrations elevate this story making it a genuine work of art
filled with familiar Irish iconography that readers will adore." - The Irish Examiner
Banshees are supernatural Irish harbingers of doom but ... where do they come from? The
answer: they grow in pods on the prickly gorse bush. The sole job of a baby banshee a
"bansheenie" as they are called is to bond with a human. Once bonded they know everything
about that person. Most importantly ... when they will die . Our bansheenie named Beanie is
no ordinary herald of death. When she sees her person a little girl called Rose she decides
to change her own - and Rose's - fate and instead of delivering bad news Beanie wants to
protect Rose and her family. When her banshee's howl of doom won't work she must draw power
and strength from the ancient secrets and hidden networks of the natural world around her. She
must create a brand new sound a new way of being in the world that will change ... everything.
