I am grateful to Max Nichols, Frances Kiernan, Hope Dellon, Mike Nichols, Susanna Moore, Anne Grubb, and Jenny Nichols for their help and advice. I am also indebted to Desmond Fitzgerald, the Knight of Glin, for his assistance with geographical details of the South of Ireland. And to my mother, the late Cynthia O’Connor, who was a Land Girl in Wales at the beginning of World War II.
The title of this novel is taken from The Family Reunion by T. S. Eliot.