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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780747262589

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Constance Keating has lived a life of internal exile, alienated from her family and from Ireland.
Now she has returned to her family home to die. While that painful, messy process takes place she replays, like a home movie, the fragments of her past. And, as the festooned Christmas tree awaits its day, so Constance also waits, hoping her child’s father will come and that the final outcome will be on her terms.

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It is difficult to convey the marvellous quality of this book. Constance Keating is a major fictional portrait, her death finally noble
Martyn Goff, Daily Telegraph
The ending brings more than a lump to the throat. It is magnificent
Daily Express
She is a skilful writer, using short flashbacks... in such a way that each page widens the picture. You start with a solitary woman, dying alone; you finish with a past, a history, great tenderness and no sentimentality
Caroline Moorhead, Spectator
A most distinguished novel
Irish Press