The leader of the struggle for Irish independence and the daughter of an English clergyman risk everything to become lovers during the reign of Queen Victoria

This second volume of autobiography is a portrait of adolescence in Dublin in the 1940s and 1950s. Leonard stirs in theatre ancedotes, vignettes of Patrick Kavanagh and Brendan Behan and divulges his own beginnings as a writer. The result is a humorous analysis of Dublin and Dubliners.

Trapped in a loveless marriage, middle-aged Dubliner T. J. Quill embarks on an affair with a woman he does not understand and finds his career improving when he becomes an archivist to the widow of a late Western filmmaker. By the author of Da and A Life.