01514cam a2200277 4500 1147837370 TxAuBib ||||||t20152014||||||||||||||||||||und|u 2015295745 9781439170939 trade paperback 1439170932 trade paperback TxAuBib Ti̤bn̕, Colm, 1955-, author. Nora webster / Colm Toibin. First Scribner trade paperback edition. New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2015. ©2014. 373 pages, 9 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm. Includes reading group guide. Widowed in her forties, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning empathy and kindness, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven-- herself. Mothers and sons Fiction. Self-realization in women Fiction. Widows Fiction. Wexford (Ireland) Fiction. Domestic fiction.