Description
Set in a sunlit Mediterranean seaside village, this lyrical novel follows a middle-aged woman with a broken heart as she flees familiar disappointments and seeks something like healing in a foreign landscape. In a community of women marked by longing and quiet disillusionment, conversations about love and loss open into a more intimate reckoning with what remains when passion fades. As relationships form and drift—tenderly, awkwardly, and sometimes unexpectedly—the story turns on the fragile hope of return: not to the past, but to the possibility of loving again. With Edna O’Brien’s trademark atmospheric prose and emotionally charged focus on female vulnerability and resilience, the book offers a complex, elusive meditation on regret, desire, and the search for meaning beyond constraint.
Available Editions
paperback
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Published Jan 1, 1988
180 pages
ISBN: 9780297794936
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First Published
1988
Language
eng
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