Wexford author Colm Tóibín will read from his new novel, Nora Webster, at Dublin's Pepper Cannister Church on October 1.
The 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner publishes his new novel in hardback on Penguin Viking on the same date.
Set in the 1960, Nora Webster tells the story of the recently-widowed Nora who is is living with her two young sons in a small town on the east coast of Ireland.
The love of her life, Maurice, has just died and so she must work out how to forge a new life for herself. She must learn how to deal with the endless procession of annoying visitors and with her unnerving aunt who has both helped and deeply disturbed her children's daily life.
More important than all of that, Nora must learn how to give her sons a future as she tries to hold onto the past. As she returns to memories of the happiness of her early marriage something more painful begins to intrude: memories of her own mother and what brought about the terrifying distance between them.
Tóibín's public reading is part of The Dublin Writers Festival Off the Page series in association with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.
The Pepper Canister is located at 2 Upper Mount St, Dublin 2 and the reading begins at 7.00pm. Tickets are priced €12.00 and€10.00 concession. To book visit www.dublinwritersfestival.com.
