In honour of St. Patrick’s Day, today we would like to share with you an audio recording of Peter Behrens reading from his Governor General’s Award-winning novel The Law of Dreams. This moving book follows Fergus O’Brien from Ireland to Liverpool and Wales during the Great Potato Famine of 1847, and then beyond — to a harrowing Atlantic crossing to Montreal.

Listen now:

(Audio recorded at KRCC Colorado Springs.)