Irish Fiction

EVERY FAMILY HAS SECRETS. SOME ARE JUST BETTER AT HIDING THEIRS...

A family brought together by the person they said goodbye to long ago . . .

Set against the backdrop and turmoil of Indian Independence and the decline of the British Empire through to the swinging 1960s, this is the story of a young woman called Grace, who courageously navigates the trials and turbulence of her life and uncovers shocking family secrets. What are these secrets?

It is impossible to read Toibin without being moved, touched and finally changed' Independent on Sunday

This is the most astonishing piece of writing, lyrical in its emotion and spare in its construction ... Toibin has crafted an unmissable read' Sunday Herald

This sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as `the greatest living Irishwoman' - Augusta Gregory.

It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.

Nora Webster lives ia small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them.

From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence.