Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín's magnificent seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable, and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be sucked back into it. Wounded, selfish, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning insight and empathy, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven—herself. (From Scribner)

Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland's most admired and prolific writers. He is the author of the novel Brooklyn, which won the Costa Best Novel Award and was made into a movie starring Saoirse Ronan. In 2006, he won the International Dublin Literary Award for The Master, an imaginative re-creation of five years in the life of Henry James.