Set in Dublin in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Francis is a quiet man who leaves his middle-class wife to move in with a piano and Ruth, an English artist with a strange daughter, Starveling. Although their lives overlap on occasion, they never actually meet until the final page of the novel.
- ISBN10 1860230148
- ISBN13 9781860230141
- Publish Date April 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2005
- Publish Country IE
- Publisher The Mercier Press Ltd
- Imprint Marino Books
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 300
- Language English