An American fly-fisher travels to a remote lodge in Connemara to pursue the last wild Atlantic salmon of the season. What she finds is an institution with its own logic, shaped by the locals who work its banks and kitchens, and funded by foreign owners. The salmon are disappearing. The lodge runs as it always has. No one is asking the right questions - until the river forces them. Set on the Bundorragha in the west of Ireland, The Bottom of the Darkness is a novella about ownership, silence, and what a landscape reveals when its keepers aren't watching. A literary novella in the tradition of the Irish big house novel, compressed to one hundred pages and set against the collapse of wild Atlantic salmon in the west of Ireland.