March 2022 Book, Nora Webster
Talk About Books meets every Third Wednesday of the month at 6:30 at Guilford Free Library. All are welcome to request a copy of the current book by emailing or calling the library. Nora Webster is set in a small town in Ireland in the 1960s, where a fiercely compelling, too-young widow and mother of four moves from grief, fear, and longing to unexpected discovery. Set in Wexford, Ireland, and in breathtaking Ballyconnigar by the sea, Colm Toibin's eighth novel introduces the formidable, memorable Nora Webster. Widowed at 40, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world she was born into. Wounded and self-centered from grief and the need to provide for her family, she struggles to be attentive to her children's needs and their own difficult loss. In masterfully detailing the intimate lives of one small family, Toibin has given us a vivid portrait of a time and an intricately w