The Blackwater Lightship : A Novel (Paperback)

from MelmoththeLost

Intense and claustrophobic, the novel focuses on three generations of women and the bitterness they have harboured for one another over decades. Faced with the impending AIDS death of Declan, the b...

from jennyo

From the back cover of the dust jacket: "Colm Toíbín's rich new novel is a portrait of three generations of strong, independent women, sorting through the love and resentments that bind them. As He...

from laytonwoman3rd

This is an early novel from Toibin, whose rather quiet explorations of human interaction and emotion sort of sneak up and clobber you. Helen, a married woman with two small sons, learns that her br...

from PDCRead

Never heard of this author before, and this is the first book of his that I have read. It is set in Ireland, and is centred around three estranged generations of the same family that are thrust bac...

from MiserableLibrarian

Helen, her mother, and her grandmother, come together after years of estrangement to care for her dying brother. This is the story of family relationships, communication, and the need to find meani...