Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town assignations in the back of his lovers car on sunny mornings and rainsoaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker the more recent recollection of the actors own daughters suicide ten years before. Ancient Light is the story of a life rendered brilliantly vivid the obsession and selfishness of young love and the terrifying shock of grief. It is a dazzling novel, funny, utterly pleasurable and devastatingly moving in the same moment.Illuminating, funny, devastating. A meditation of breathtaking beauty and profundity on love and loss and death Financial TimesBanville perfectly captures the spirit of adolescence. A luminous, breathtaking work Independent on SundayStartlingly brilliant. Terrific full of sadness and yearning Sunday Telegraph

Binding: Paperback;256 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 268 g; Dimensions: 176 x 128 x 17

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