Ancient Light John Banville

John Banville's Ancient Light is a story of obsessive young love and the power of grief.

Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother. In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old woman - in the back of her car on sunny mornings, and in a rundown cottage in the country on rain-soaked afternoons. Unsure why she has chosen him, he becomes obsessed and tormented by this first love. Half a century later, actor Alexander Cleave - g