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Winner of the Authors Club First Novel Award: Alone with melancholic memories of his past, a widower finds new life after striking up a friendship with a village boy In County Wicklow, south of Dublin, Mr. Prendergast lives alone in the Big House of his village. A remnant of the long-gone days of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, Prendergasts mansion has been witness to many of the most important years of his life, including his childhood, marked by his mothers open preference for his older brother, Alexander. Following Alexanders death in the First World War, Prendergast traveled the world, returning home decades later to a greatly changed place. Now in the 1970s, his wife and daughter are both gone, leaving the house an empty monument to his isolation and melancholy. But when the young, redheaded Diarmid arrives on Prendergasts doorstep, the boys thrill at the houses history sparks an unlikely friendshipone that revives in Prendergast a sense of vitality and sets in motion a final, fateful confrontation with the outside world hed shunned for so many years.
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