Description: "In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home in Ireland and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns from London. What--and who--she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever"--
Review Quotes: "The novel, as with all Ryan's work, is tightly compressed, skillfully whittled down to the point where each word carries far more than its weight... Filled with tenderness, and written with the quiet lyricism that has put Ryan on the topmost branch of the flourishing tree of contemporary Irish fiction."
--The New York Times Book Review
--Minneapolis Star Tribune "Ryan (From a Low and Quiet Sea) impresses with this gorgeous and meticulous multigenerational family saga...Fans of Sebastian Barry and Anne Enright will love this delicate and lush portrait." --Publishers Weekly
"A must-read." --Irish Central "Here is love as a weapon and a balm. Love as faith, fate and redemption... a gorgeously wrought book - compassionate without dissolving into nostalgia."
--Guardian "One of the greatest Irish novels of this century so far." --Sunday Independent "Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving." --David Nicholls "A big-hearted, beautiful work of art, full of truth and intensity." --Kit de Waal "Donal Ryan is giving us characters - their angles and their language - that we haven't seen in Irish literature before." --Roddy Doyle