When Light Is Like Water

''It is brilliant: her finest book yet'' Anne Enright
''A triumph'' Joseph O''Connor
''Fresh and raw and completely entrancing'' Sara Baume
''Powerful'' Edmund White

Alice, a young American on her travels, arrives in the West of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments - except to her beloved mother, who raised her on her own. She falls in love with an Irishman, marries him, and settles down in...