EAN: 9781804549810

THE WELL OF SAINT NOBODY - NEIL JORDAN GEBUNDEN

He had met her three times and three times forgotten all about her...William Barrow finds
himself in lonely retirement in West Cork. Once an internationally renowned pianist  a terrible
skin disease has attacked his hands and made it impossible for him to perform. All he can play
haltingly  is Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand.Tara is a piano teacher with barely enough
pupils to pay the month's rent. In the local café  the elegant writing of a job advertisement
catches her eye: 'Wanted. Housekeeper.'She begins to work in William's house  keeping to
herself the knowledge that they have met three times before - encounters that have changed her
life  to which he is oblivious. When William stumbles upon a well in the back garden  Tara
finds herself longing for revenge. She spins tales of a mythical saint  of the healing powers
of the water and of the moss that surrounds it. But as the moss begins to heal William's
troubled hands  the lines between legend and reality begin to blur  and past and present
collide in unexpected ways.Gripping and lyrical  The Well of Saint Nobody is a story of love 
secrets and the elusive possibility of second chances.

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