The author of The Untouchable ('contemporary fiction gets no better than this'-Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review) now gives us a luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory. The narrator is Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who, soon after his wife's death, has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child-a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her. But it is also a return to the place where he met