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The Blackwater lightship

The Blackwater lightship

Book 2001

The story of three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. It is the early 1990s, and Helen O'Doherty, her mother Lily, and her grandmother, Dora, have come together in a crumbling house along Ireland's coastal souteast to tend to Helen's adored brother Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With two of Declan's friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each ot...