The Copper Author:Beech In the Irish town of Shancarrig, the young people carve their initials-and those of their loves-into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything... more » in the placid village is what it seems.« less