WILL SHE EVER FIND HIM? AND EVEN IF SHE DOES - WILL HE STILL LOVE HER? On a wild Irish strand Kate flees in panic ("I'm too young ... ") from her best friend, then has to search for him through the universe, desperate for him to renew his love. This first volume of Finnegan's Kate-Pearl" epic series, at once stirring romance and spiritual parable, has won plaudits both for the mythic story and for Its literary style, reminiscent of writers like Joyce, Faulkner, Hopkins, Yeats and Homer. This is a style however that does not appeal to those readers who prefer a more traditional style in terms of grammar, punctuation, spelling or vocabulary. The dreamlike course of the tale also at times demands a leap of the imagination from the reader - to some confusing, irritating, or at best challenging, to others part of the search and the beauty of the metaphorical story. The novel, poetic, riddling, multi-level, and (surprisingly) born in sleep and dream, is interlaced with the ambiguity between this world and another, bringing out the key themed s of the novel - the eternity of love and our ever-puzzling ambiguity between dream and reality. This revised and enlarged edition includes an extended analysis of its striking literary style and unusual genesis.