The second in the author's series of novels which includes "A Singer at the Wedding" and "The Muted Swan". The themes of adolescent and familial love, guilt and responsibility are explored.
Bruce Arnold is an English journalist and author who has lived in Ireland since 1957. His main expertise is in the fields of literary criticism and art criticism. In 1983 it emerged that his telephone had been bugged by Charles J. Haughey in the Irish phone tapping scandal. He and the other bugged journalists were considered to have "anti-national" views.