2015 Audie Award Finalist for Literary Fiction
From one of contemporary literature's bestselling, critically
acclaimed, and beloved authors: a "luminous" novel (Jennifer Egan, The
New York Times Book Review) about a fiercely compelling young widow
navigating grief, fear, and longing, and finding her own
voice--"heartrendingly transcendant" (The New York Times, Janet
Maslin).
Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín's magnificent 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 sucked back
into it. Wounded, selfish, 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 insight and empathy, and
when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace,
engagement, a haven--herself.
Nora Webster "may actually be a perfect work of fiction" (Los Angeles
Times), by a "beautiful and daring" writer (The New York Times Book
Review) at the zenith of his career, able to "sneak up on readers and
capture their imaginations" (USA TODAY). "Miraculous...Tóibín portrays
Nora with tremendous sympathy and understanding" (Ron Charles, The
Washington Post).
