| Publisher |
Picador India |
| Publication Year |
2008 |
| ISBN-13 |
9780330389860 |
| ISBN-10 |
9780330389860 |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Number of Pages |
288 Pages |
| Language |
(English) |
Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Tóibín's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family. 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
Colm Toibin
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of numerous novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, House of Names and Nora Webster. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction, including Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Father of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce. He lives in Dublin.
Colm Toibin
Picador India