Kevin Casey was born in Kells, Co. Meath in 1940 and went to Blackrock College, Dublin. Once the Abbey's youngest playwright, and married to poet Eavan Boland, he is author of critically acclaimed worksThe Sinner's Bell (1968), A Sense of Survival (1974) and Dreams of Revenge (1977). This is his exciting comeback novel.

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John Hughes, a once-feted journalist/author with writer's block, puts at risk everything he has ever loved - his wife Laura, teenage daughter Rachael and the bucolic ease of their quiet corner of Ireland. Losing his friends and mistress, John is forced to take responsibility for his actions in order to save his family and his integrity.

Zusammenfassung
In mid-1970s rural Wicklow, John Hughes, a once-feted journalist/author with writer's block, reflects on recent events. When English author William Cromer and his German lover Ingrid move to the Old Rectory nearby, their lives are transformed and an alcohol-fuelled affair begins.