Told over the 17 days following the suicide of her beloved grandson, 89 year old Lilly Bere, consumed by grief, reflects on her life. Hers has been a life marked by exile from her homeland, fraught with hardship and trauma at almost every turn in America and yet she has been indomitable and optimistic throughout her long life. Exquisitely painful, in my opinion this beautifully written novel is a masterpiece by one of Ireland’s best contemporary writers! But wait there’s more…..The Secret Scripture and The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty are equally exquisite masterpieces to be devoured.