The Sea and the Silence
Soaring across the decades that follow Ireland’s newly won independence and through the class and land issues that once defined Irish society, The Sea and the Silence is an epic love story set amid the fading grandeur of the Anglo Irish class.
Reviews
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“Cannot come more highly recommended. Once started it must be finished, and once read, it must be re-read.”
-Susan Connolly, Sunday Business Post
Prize.
“Delightful . . . as moving as it is skilfully told.”
- Sheena Davitt, Daily Mail
“A book which will shorten any journey.”
-Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Irish Times
Extract
In those first months, being in Monument pierced me; but in time she became as I had thought of her on my very first visit: a port that was more Mediterranean than Irish, not just because of the sense of relative plenty in an Ireland that was striving to survive on war rations, nor because of the exotic faces one encountered when ships were in; but Monument herself, in her architecture of terraces and arched doorways, her labyrinth streets, lanes, courtyards and back steps, and her almost Moorish churches discovered behind an ancient palisade or beyond a rusting portcullis might well have been forged in a distant land and floated in one foggy morning from the sea.
