Dimensions
130 x 198 x 12mm
Alice Lynch appears to have everything - brains, beauty and, as a result of marrying the successful Paddy Lynch, wealth - yet she harbours a barely concealed hatred of her husband. What the student she dallies with cannot understand is why she doesn't leave him. Alice, haunted by the ghosts of her rural Irish childhood, knows it's not that simple, but knows too that she has to find a way out.
This powerful and unsettling novel traces the corrosive effect of a dark secret on a group of friends and lovers, and illuminates a shocking aspect of life in Ireland's recent past.
