© Humanitas Publishing House, 2009
Following her husband's accidental murder by an IRA gunman, Helen Cuffe retreats to the remote north-west coast of County Donegal to paint the sea and the shore, and to be alone with her past. Her isolation is pieced by the arrival of English war hero Roger Hawthorne who settles in the neglected railway station house nearby. Mutilated and sick at heart, with the help of a young lad, Damian, he begins painstakingly to restore the derelict branch line station. Soon Roger and Helen form a bond which, over gramophone music, dancing and champagne, deepens into love. But Helen, enjoying her first taste of happiness in years, is to learn just how brutally fleeting it can be.
Hamilton 1984
Translated into: Romanian
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