- 2013
- year of publication
- 256
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- Penguin
- ISBN-13
- 978-02-4195-540-6
- EAN
- 9780241955406
- Publication date
- 2013-03-28
- Book
- Ancient Light · 3 editions
The publisher on this edition
'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old woman - in the back of her car on sunny mornings, and in a rundown cottage in the country on rain-soaked afternoons. Unsure why she has chosen him, he becomes obsessed and tormented by this first love. Half a century later, actor Alexander Cleave - grieving for the recent loss of his daughter - recalls these trysts, trying to make sense of the boy he was and of the needs and frailties of the human heart.


