The Heather Blazing

Colm T ib n's 'lovely, understated' novel that 'proceeds with stately grace' (The Washington Post Book World) about an uncompromising judge whose principles, when brought home to his own family, are tragic. Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland's high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm T ib n reconstructs the history of Eamon's relationships--with his father, his first 'girl,' his wife, and the children who barely know him--and he writes about Eamon's affection for the Irish coast with such painterly skill that the land itself becomes a character. The result is a novel of stunning power, 'seductive and absorbing' (USA Today).