BRAND NEW Please allow 4-7 working days for delivery This item is shipped from our NZ warehouse

Midwinter Break by MacLaverty, Bernard

ISBN: 9781787330214 PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape Ltd FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 288 PUBLICATION DATE: 31.07.2017 DIMENSIONS: 21.6 x 13.5 x 1.8 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms to an honest reckoning with love and the loss of love, with memory and pain. Full of scenes that are rendered with exquisite accuracy and care, allowing the most detailed physical descriptions to be placed against the possibility of a rich spiritual life, this is a novel of great ambition by an artist at the height of his powers.' Colm T ibYnSixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly from their home in Scotland to Amsterdam for a long weekend. A holiday to refresh the senses, to do some sightseeing and generally to take stock of what remains of their lives. Their relationship seems safe, easy, familiar but over the course of the four days we discover the deep uncertainties which exist between them. Gerry, once an architect, is forgetful and set in his ways. Stella is tired of his lifestyle, worried about their marriage and angry at his constant undermining of her religious faith. Things are not helped by memories which have begun to resurface of a troubled time in their native Ireland. As their midwinter break comes to an end, we understand how far apart they are and can only watch as they struggle to save themselves.Bernard MacLaverty is a master storyteller, and Midwinter Break is the

• If using business address pls use PO Box as do not use courier
• In Stock with our supplier shipped from our NZ Warehouse
• Stock image only. Actual cover art may differ
• No returns on wrong items purchased