Aidan Higgins

'Why did I?...Because I desired him to be happy; because I wanted to give him something; because he had Father's eyes...'

Imogen Langrishe, youngest of the four Langrishe sisters, whose name has long meant money, status and respect to the people of Celbridge, Co. Kildare, embarks on a reckless love affair...

Set to the backdrop of a crumblings 1930s Europe, Aidan Higgins' classic novel depicts the demise of the old order of power in Ireland, as Imogen's loss of inhibition lead her deeper into the sensual, yet lonely, world of despair and heartbreak.

'Intelligent...ironic...witty'  New York Saturday Review

'The pure architecture of his sentences takes the breath out of you'  Annie Proulx

ISBN: 9781905494460; B PB; 330 pp; March 2007