NORA WEBSTER

From one of contemporary literature?s bestselling, acclaimed, and beloved authors: a ''luminous'' novel (The New York Times Book Review) about a fiercely compelling young widow navigating grief, fear, and longing, and finding her own voice. Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín?s magnificent 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. 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.