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The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea offers us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a yoga on love and reduction, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives. Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of identity, the clarifying lyricism, and the heart-wrenching laughter that have proclaimed all of John Banville's extraordinary works. Which is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he plumbs the stories of his first - as well as perhaps only - love (he, just 15, the girl more than twice his get older, the mother of his closest friend; the situation impossible, fascinating, devouring, and finally damaging) . . . and of his little girl, lost to a kind of madness of mind and heart that Cleave can only just neglect to understand. When his stunted operating career is out of the blue, inexplicably revived with a movie role portraying a man who might not be who he says he is, his young leading girl - famous and fragile - unwittingly offers him the chance to see with aching quality the "chasm that yawns between the doing of something and the recollection of what was done".
