THE NINTH HOUR

From the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant fami ly in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn - for fans of Anne Tyler, Anne Enright and Colm Toibin On a gloomy February afternoon, Jim sends his wife Annie out to do the shopping before dark falls. He seals their meagre apartment, unhooks the gas tube inside the oven, and inha les. Sister St. Saviour, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, catches the scent of fire doused with water and hurries to the sc ene: a ga...[Read more]