When All Is Said

When All Is Said

By Anne Griffin

Pages

338

Rating

4.02

Year

2019

Description

If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn about yourself, when all is said and done?

This is the story of Maurice Hannigan, who, over the course of a Saturday night in June, orders five different drinks at the Rainford House Hotel. With each he toasts a person vital to him: his doomed older brother, his troubled sister-in-law, his daughter of fifteen minutes, his son far off in America, and his late, lamented wife. And through these people, the ones who left him behind, he tells the story of his own life, with all its regrets and feuds, loves and triumphs.

A tale of a single night. The story of a lifetime. Beautifully written, powerfully felt, When All Is Said promises to be the next great Irish novel.

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