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This darkly glinting novel from Man Booker prize winner Anne Enright, set on the west coast of Ireland, is a tale of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion – a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them.
Rosaleen Considine married beneath her when she took the hand of Pat Madigan decades ago. Their four children are now middle-aged, and only one of them, Constance, stayed local, marrying into the McGrath family, which has benefited comfortably from the nation’s financial boom. Returning to the fold, for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell, are Dan, originally destined for the priesthood, now living in Toronto as a gay man; Emmet, the international charity worker struggling with attachment; and Hanna, the disappointed actress with a drinking problem. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesnt quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home.
Author: Anne Enright
Paperback 320 Pages, This edition published July 2019