Michael O'Connell is dead!' Spanning the week of his burial, from his obituary to the wake, eight characters whose lives - some intimately, some more obliquely - have intersected his, slowly open up the carefully constructed compartments of his very private, very financially successful, life, even as they reveal themselves. A luminous story of disclosure and concealment, of love and its opposites explored in their various tones and shades, and of those who embrace life's alternatives and those who deny them, Octet's canvas is broad, spreading from the Wicklow Stud in the southern hinterland...