A magnificent, elegiac novel of intersecting memories that explores the meaning of separation and reunion, the sorrows of fractured families, and the profound effect of Ireland's harshly beautiful landscape on lives lived in solitude
After WWII, Tamara moves to Ireland to begin an intense affair with Niall. Niall's brother Kieran mysteriously disappeared after an epic bicycle race that pitted the two brothers against each other. As Tamara's story becomes intertwined with the brothers' heartbreaking history she starts to question the circumstances that brought her to Ireland, and the future she hoped to have there.