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A stunning return from the prize-winning and best-selling author of The Secret Scripture

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From the bestselling author of The Secret Scripture, a heartbreaking story of lost love.

Jack McNulty, a former UN observer, has worked around the world and seen extraordinary things but, as he contemplates his return to Ireland after many years, his memories are dominated by his tumultuous marriage to Mai Kirwan. A great beauty with a vivid mind, Mai was also an elusive and troubled soul, stuck in a marriage that couldn´t last.

The Temporary Gentleman is a powerful account of one man´s attempt to come to terms with the savage realities of the past.

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´One´s heart leaps into one´s mouth and stays there . . . Exhilarating.´ Charlotte Moore Spectator

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Barry, Sebastian
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008) were shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in County Wicklow with his wife and three children.

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