My Dream of You

Middle-aged travel writer returns to Ireland, her place of birth, to confront her childhood and try to make sense of her life so far. For women of a certain age, every word she breathes will ring true. Every concern, every question she has, we have had. But this is more than ruminations on a mid-life crisis. The author weaves in a literary detective story, meditations on the many facets of bereavement, thoughts about what it means to be an Irish woman living in England, and some deeply striking and stunningly evocative images of Ireland as it is now and as it may have been in the past. Beautiful and moving.