Ashes in the Wind interweaves the destinies of two the Anglo-Irish Burkes and the Catholic Irish Sullivans, beginning in 1919 with a shocking murder and the burning of the Burkes' ancestral castle in Kerry.
Childhood friends John Burke and Tomas Sullivan will find themselves on opposite sides of an armed struggle that engulfs Ireland.
Only 60 years later will the triumphant and redemptive finale of this enthralling story be played out.
Christopher Bland was a former Chairman of the BBC, BT and the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was Anglo-Irish and married with a son and four stepchildren. He lived between London and Wiltshire.