My goodness this book was far more than I expected it to be. Brilliantly well researched Historical Fiction on Ireland's first and only female Saint, Brigid. This book not only provides a very well written insight to post St Patrick's Ireland but to the process of conversion from a pagan country to a christian one. The secondary love for this book was the parallel story of the actual long lost Book of Kildare pre-dating the Book of Kells and throwing a beautiful Biblical Archaeology piece to this story line. The historian in me, the Archaeologist in me, the adventure seeker in me and the religious history lover were all pulled together in this book.