Last Light Breaking

"Patrick Corcoran''s first novel, Last Light Breaking, breaks a silence, telling the story of a survivor of the Great War slaughter who, fearing hostility to his British Army past in post-revolutionary Ireland, chose invisibility as a village postmaster in Somerset for forty years. Corcoran''s evocations of a turn-of-the-century Carlow adolescence, dominated by religious mystification and sexual i...