The Blackwater Lightship

Colm Toibin

From Shelf: The Booker Prize 1999 Shortlist

A story of resolution, compassion and love, The Blackwater Lightship reveals the intense connection between grandmother, mother and daughter.

Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Toibin's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family, and reveals the intense connection between grandmother, mother and daughter.Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and the women in a crumbling old house by the sea, where the six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, must listen and come to terms with one another.'It is in his emotional choreography that Toibin shows himself to be an exceptional writer' - Sunday Telegraph

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