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Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland's high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least outwardly, his own childhood. The life he has built for himself, between his work in Dublin and his family's retreat by the sea at Cush, is distinguished by order and by achievement. When, like his beloved coastline, it begins to slip away, he is pulled sharply into the present and finds himself revisiting his past.

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'Proceeds with stately grace from past to present, incident to incident, slowly forming, as it moves, the full shape of a man's public and private life.' -- Washington Post 'It is impossible to read Toibin without being moved, touched and finally changed.' -- The Independent on Sunday

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Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022–2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York. Irish-born Stephen Hogan was trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He went on to perform at the Royal National Theatre in London and the prestigious Abbey and Gaiety Theatres in Dublin. By 1993 he was working on screen, first in HBO’s The Tudors and then moving on to his first movie appearance in the cult sci-fi trilogy epic Starship Troopers 3: Marauder. He has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Injustice and secured a role in the television movie Saving the Titanic.

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