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Ancient Light

`Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.`Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back of his lover`s car on sunny mornings and rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker – the more recent recollection of the actor`s own daughter`s suicide ten years before. Ancient Light is the story of a life rendered brilliantly vivid: the obsession and selfishness of young love and the terrifying shock of grief. It is a dazzling novel, funny, utterly pleasurable and devastatingly moving in the same moment.`Illuminating, funny, devastating. A meditation of breathtaking beauty and profundity on love and loss and death` Financial Times`Banville perfectly captures the spirit of adolescence. A luminous, breathtaking work` Independent on Sunday`Startlingly brilliant. Terrific – full of sadness and yearning` Sunday Telegraph

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