The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

The Forgotten Waltz is a memory of desire: a recollection of the bewildering speed of attraction, the irreparable slip into longing. In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, in the winter of 2009, it has snowed. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for 'the love of her life', Seán Vallely. As the city outside comes to a halt, Gina remembers the days of their affair in one hotel room or another: long afternoons made blank by bliss and denial. Now, as the silent streets and the stillness and vertigo of the falling snow make the day luminous and full of possibility, Gina waits the arrival on her doorstep of Seán's fragile, twelve-year-old daughter, Evie - the complication, and gravity, of this second life. In this extraordinary novel, this opening book of secrets, Anne Enright speaks directly to the readers she won with the success of The Gathering. Here, again, is the sudden, momentous drama of everyday life, the volatile connections between people; that fresh eye for each flinch and gesture; the wry, accurate take on families, marriage, brittle middle age. The same verve and humour and breathtaking control are evident; the ability to merge the ordinary and the beautiful. With The Forgotten Waltz Enright turns her attention fully to love - you might even call it romance - as she follows another flawed and unforgettable heroine on a journey of the heart. Writing at the height of her powers, this is Anne Enright's tour de force, a novel of intelligence, passion and real distinction.

That's the Anne Enright voice all right - wry, disabused, reckless, candid, funny -- Hermione Lee * Guardian *
This beautifully written, lyrical novel is a portrait of family tensions and the listless half-light in which a mistress must live -- Jane Clinton * Sunday Express *
Enright has taken a simple plot and produced a touching novel that examines the cost - and the compensations - of loveThe heroine is both plausible and sympathetic, while the supporting cast is marshalled with skill, tenderness and humour -- Max Davidson * Mail on Sunday *
A simply and beautifully told tale * Lady *
A simple tale of adultery and its consequences, told from a female perspective…Enright risks an over-familiarity of the subject matter, but she has brought it off superbly * Daily Telegraph *

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and six novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature.

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ISBN 13	9780224089036
ISBN 10	022408903X
Title	The Forgotten Waltz
Author	Anne Enright
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2011-04-28
Number of pages	240
Prizes	Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2012
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.