The Light of Evening

By: Edna O'Brien;

Language: English

Quality: Good

Genre: Historical fiction, Novel,

ISBN: 9780753821756

SKU: BE501271904069

Pages: 368

Description: NOTE: BROWNING OF PAGES DUE TO AGE.INSIDE CONDITION IS GOOD. From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London. The epochs of her life pass before her: emigrating to America in the 1920s, a romantic liasion she had there, the destiny that brought her back to Ireland and her marriage. She also retraces Eleanora's precipitate marriage to a foreigner and Dilly's heart-rending letters sent over the years in a determination to reclaim her daughter.Eleanora's visit does not prove to be the glad reunion that it might have been and, in her sudden departure, she leaves behind the secret journal of their stormy relationship.THE LIGHT OF EVENING is a novel of dreams and broken dreams but, at its core, is the realisation that the bond between mother and child is unbreakable, stronger even than death.