The High Road Author:Edna O'Brien In this richly passionate novel of love lost and love regained, the currents of regret and loneliness clash with a fierce instinct for survival. Anna, a woman of that certain age, flees to a small Spanish island to forget an ill-fated love affair, and meets a group pf people who are there to settle accounts with the past: D'Arcy, a wan... more »dering Irish painter; the imperious and aging Iris; and Charlotte, a faded debutante. But it is Catalina, an enchanting, radiantly alive Spanish girl, with whom Anna becomes obsessed.
The High Road is Edna O'Brien's first novel in over a decade -- a sensual, exquisitely perceptive work in which the landscape of the heart is laid with mines, and new dangers attend on new loves. Vibrating with romantic sensibilities and dazzling linguistic effects, it haunts us with its beauty and brilliance.« less