Professor Aaron McCloud, recently jilted in love, travels to the family home in Western Ireland to visit his aunt Kitty. He ends up stranded outside town with a pig following him down the road. This was a strange novel, not much about anything particularly. The writing was very good, but the narrative seemed endless at times. There were many flashes of humor but overall this book came off to me as a very literary farcical novel. The romantic resolutions at the end didn't seem realistic.