Leaves for Burning

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Leaves for the Burning, Mervyn Wall's third novel, and his first non humorous work was written in 1952. Set in a small Irish midlands town, it explores the passing of youth and opportunity and the onset of premature aging, against the back drop of a fiercely insular small community.


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