'Touching and nostalgic' GUARDIAN'She conjures places as vividly as feelings, and feelings as exactly as her surroundings' VOGUE'It is the only intimate and un-angry expression of the feelings of a colonised people that I have ever read' DAVID THOMSONPolly Devlin grew up in County Tyrone, on the shores of Lough Neagh in the fifties, but it might as well have been another time and place altogether. ...

'Keane has a sharp eye, but a compassionate one' GUARDIAN'I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved' DIANA ATHILL'Miss Farrell's genius lies in her remorselessness . . . deliciously funny' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWJessica and Jane have been living together for six months and are devoted friends - or are they? Jessica loves her friend with the cruelty of total possessiveness; Jane is rich, silly, ...

'Keane has a sharp eye, but a compassionate one' GUARDIAN'I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved' DIANA ATHILL'Miss Farrell's genius lies in her remorselessness . . . deliciously funny' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWJessica and Jane have been living together for six months and are devoted friends - or are they? Jessica loves her friend with the cruelty of total possessiveness; Jane is rich, silly, ...

BY THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEINTRODUCED BY POLLY DEVLIN'Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit' IRISH TIMES'She was . . . marvellous' GUARDIAN'A writer of genius' WALL STREET JOURNALOne glorious gothic mansion - Garonlea - and two rather different ladies who would be Queen . . .Lady Charlotte French-McGrath has...