The Sea and the Silence
'A terrific novel. Moving and hugely entertaining.' Roddy Doyle
Ireland 1945. Iz, a beautiful young woman, begins a life on the south-east coast with her new husband. The war in Europe has just ended and change is about to sweep away the old order.
As Iz settles down to try and make her life by the sea, the circumstances that have brought her to Monument are shrouded in mystery.
Soaring across the decades that follow Ireland’s newly won independence and through the class and land issues that once defined Irish society, The Sea and the Silence is an epic love story set amid the fading grandeur of the Anglo-Irish class.
Praise for Peter Cunningham:
‘Cunningham, a magician with words ... ’
Vincent Banville
‘A writer of great gifts’
Barry Unsworth, Booker Prize winner
‘Cunningham’s descriptive writing is as superb as his characterisation’
Sue Leonard, Irish Examiner
ISBN: 9781848400054; T PB; 254 pp; September 2008
