Thanks from me too Bookworm_Girl: I'll save it until I have finished the book. At the moment I have read three chapters. I think Tóibín's pared-back style conveys Nora's sense of grief far better than elaborate descriptions would do. The end of Chapter One stopped me in my tracks:
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In future, she hoped, fewer people would call. In future, once the boys went to bed, she might have the house to herself more often. She would learn how to spend these hours. In the peace of these winter evenings, she would work out how she was going to live.
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Oh, the desolation of those simple sentences.