A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London, where he married an American divorc e. As a result he now faces certain dismissal by the school authorities. The novel recreates the story of how the man and the woman broke the shackles of guilt and duty and came to accept a fulfilling adult love.
'A beautiful, irresistible work of imagination.' Sunday Telegraph
- ISBN10 070433125X
- ISBN13 9780704331259
- Publish Date 21 February 1977 (first published 6 June 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Quartet Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English