
Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland's high court a man remote from his wife his son & daughter & at least outwardly from his own childhood. The life he has built for himself between his work in Dublin & his family's retreat by the sea at Cush is distinguished by order & by achievement. When like his beloved coastline it begins to slip away he is pulled sharply into the present & finds himself revisiting his past. Proceeds with stately grace from past to present incident to incident slowly forming as it moves the full shape of a man's public & private life' Washington Post If Colm Toibin were a singer you would say he had perfect pitch' Spectator