Nora Webster : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from RidgewayGirl

I'd forgotten how well Colm Tóibín writes about quiet lives until I was halfway through the first chapter of Nora Webster, and entirely hooked. Set in Ireland, in 1968, the novel centers on a woman in her mid-forties, whose husband has recently died, leaving her to negotiate child-rearing, find a...

from Cariola

This is a quiet little book centered around Nora Webster, a fortyish Irish woman living in a small town outside of Dublin in the late 1960s. Her husband Maurice has recently died of a painful illness, and not only is she devastated by the loss, but caring for him in his last weeks seems to have s...

from bobbieharv

I love his writing. After the first chapter I was a little afraid the whole book would be depressing, about this lonely sort of prickly woman who had just lost her husband, but her gradual development of a life on her own was just lovely to read. And her personality emerged just as gradually. Pri...

from icolford

It is the 1960s and Nora Webster's husband Maurice has died young, and she is left to fend for herself and her four children in a small town in Southern Ireland. Maurice was a teacher who was loved and respected throughout the community: a presence whom people gravitated toward, known for his lov...

from eachurch

Colm Toibin is a masterful writer. Nora Webster is a remarkable, but quiet novel which is also extremely disquieting and, at points, almost painful to read. The complexity of Nora's rather ordinary life is portrayed in a moving and subtle way.