Last Days of Summer

''Opens Vanessa Ronan''s literary career the way dynamite opens a safe ... beautiful and invigoratingly shocking'' Joseph O''Connor, Irish Times

Mid-July in Texas. Cicadas shed their dry summer skins, the scent of roses hangs heavy in the still air, and a woman sits alone on her porch at dusk, watching the empty, merciless prairie, its light falling to darkness. He''s coming home.

Upstairs, Lizzie k...