The Heather Blazing
29 June 2023Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'It is impossible to read Tóibín without being moved, touched and finally changed' Independent on Sunday
Colm Tóibín’s The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland’s high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least outwardly, from his own childhood. The life he has built for himself, between his work...
Details
29 June 2023256 pages
9781035034345Imprint: Picador
Reviews
It is impossible to read Tóibín without being moved, touched and finally changed.Independent on Sunday
Proceeds with stately grace from past to present, incident to incident, slowly forming, as it moves, the full shape of a man’s public and private life.Washington Post
If Colm Tóibín were a singer you would say he had perfect pitch.Spectator
