Anne Enright

This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O?Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London?s West End. Katherine?s life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine?s past, or the world?s damage. As Norah uncovers her mother?s secrets, she acquires a few of her own....

The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold. A darkly glinting novel set...

In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, in the winter of 2009, it has snowed. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for the love of her life.