Paperback. Pub Date :2006-9-1 Pages: 273 Publisher: Economic Daily News This is the most astonishing piece of writing. lyrical in itsemotion and spare in its construction ... Toibin has crafted anunmissable read - Sunday Herald In Blackwater in the. early1990s. three women - Dora Devereux. her daughter Lily and hergranddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife andreached an uneasy truce Helens adored brother Declan is dying.Two friends join him and the women in a crumbling old house by thesea. where. the six of them. from different generations and withdifferent beliefs. must listen and come to terms with oneanother.It is in his emotional choreography that Toibin showshimself to be an exceptional writer. Helen is estranged from bothher mother and grandmother ... Toibin helps them make peace - and hedoes it beautifully -. Sunday Telegraph He writes in spare. po...