EAN: 9780861549986

Bilder-Quelle: averdo
A POIGNANT STORY OF LOVE AND REGRET FROM A MASTER OF CONTEMPORARY IRISH FICTION * 'David Park is one of Ireland's great novelists.' Roddy Doyle author of  The Commitments * For fans of Sebastian Faulks Donal Ryan and Anne Tyler comes this beautiful novel following two troubled men separated by nearly a century bound by the ghosts of their past When George Allenby is put in charge of building a lake in the grounds of an imposing Irish manor house he intends to do the job as swiftly as possible and return to Belfast. Allenby is still wrestling with his time as an officer during the First World War burdened by the many things he could have done differently. Almost a century later Alex and Ellie are preparing for their wedding sparing no expense to hire a venue overlooking the very lake Allenby built all those years ago. Like Allenby before him Alex is haunted by decisions he made in the past. Now with the wedding drawing ever closer he is at a crossroads. Telling the truth might free him from his guilt it might also take away everything he cares about including Ellie.  In this masterful portrait of love and betrayal David Park reveals the many ways the past seeps into the present: destructive formidable but also hopeful in the moments of fragile beauty that remain.
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