From one of contemporary literature's bestselling, critically
acclaimed and beloved authors, the magnificent, instant New York Times
bestselling novel set in Ireland, about a fiercely compelling young
widow and mother of four, navigating grief and fear, struggling for
hope.
Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín's superb seventh novel introduces
the formidable, memorable and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at
forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love
of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to
which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it.
Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where
everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and
blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father.
Yet she has moments of stunning empathy and kindness, and when she
begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a
haven--herself.
Nora Webster is a masterpiece in character study by a writer at the
zenith of his career, "beautiful and daring" (The New York Times Book
Review) and able to "sneak up on readers and capture their
imaginations" (USA TODAY). In Nora Webster, Tóibín has created a
character as iconic, engaging and memorable as Madame Bovary or Hedda
Gabler.
