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'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 lover's car on sunny mornings and rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker - the more recent recollection of the actor's own daughter's 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 Times 'Banville perfectly captures the spirit of adolescence. A luminous, breathtaking work' Independent on Sunday 'Startlingly brilliant. Terrific - full of sadness and yearning' Sunday Telegraph

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Ancient Light
• Author: John Banville
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780241986455
• ID: 21034513
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 148 g
• Dimensions: 176 × 128 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. June 2019

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