What do we keep of the people we love? And what do we take?
As Eleanor prepares an exhibition in Lisbon, a portrait brings a father and son back to a conversation neither has finished. An old friend arrives with drawings he should have returned years ago. In Dublin, the nurse who cared for the man in the portrait is learning how easily the wish to help can become a refusal to listen.
The man has been dead for eight years. The lives connected to his are still changing.
A confidence is shared beyond its intended listener. Paintings long kept apart are brought together. A son wants a future that is his to choose. Affection endures, but so do jealousy, pride and the wish to be needed.
In Another Light is an intimate novel about the claims we make in the name of love—and the difficult freedom of allowing others a life we cannot own.
