As readers of THE BUTCHER BOY will attest, Patrick McCabe is an expert at sending his protagonists spiraling down into madness, and dragging the reader along with them. In WINTERWOOD, Redmond Hatch is happily married to a much younger woman, the mother of his darling daughter, Imogen. But before too long, she has cheated on him and left him, and so Redmond's insanity begins. First he fakes his suicide, and assumes a new identity. Plagued by visions and nightmares, he stalks his old family, finally murdering his daughter and burying her in the imaginary land of Winterwood.