“Grania explodes from the pages of Ms. Llywelyn’s best historical novel yet as one of the most remarkable women who ever lived—brave, resourceful, passionate, tender, and, finally, in her battle with the English she-king Elizabeth, victorious. A book for all those who are Irish, or who would like to be, or who like to read about the Irish.” —Andrew M. Greeley

“Mary Stewart has a worthy rival.” —The Baltimore Sun

“Llywelyn is surely the modern-day Bard of the Irish. Grania is a page-turning, swashbuckling tale of the sixteenth-century Pirate Queen of Connaught, a clever and gallant lady whose own struggle for survival easily parallels twentieth-century woman’s struggle for equality. It’s a breathtaking read!” —Bertrice Small

“This is Morgan Llywelyn at her best—and yet in Grania there is a subtle departure from her earlier works, which celebrated Celtic beginnings. Here she sings of endings and twilight, in a story whose sensuality and sexuality themselves are strongly haunting within a whacking, all-out page turner.”

—Parke Godwin