The Fourth Island

This is a very different sort of story - I guess I would call it a fabulation. It blends descriptions of daily life on the remote Aran Islands with the myth of the uniquely-identifiable knitting patterns attributed to Aran sweaters (also known as jumpers or ganseys) and a mystical fourth Aran island which is populated with people who have become lost - either physically lost, or lost in despair - to create a tale which is magical but heartbreaking.

There's not really much of a story here - but I liked it, because it is so very different from this year's other novella offerings.