Title: The nature of water and air
Description: ""My mother was never easy in the world of houses. She was a tinker, a traveler girl who had married a wealthy man. Her name was Agatha Sheehy...There are silences all around my mother's story."".

"So begins The Nature of Water and Air, set on a patch of Irish coast where, amid a flurry of whispers, we meet Agatha's only surviving daughter, Clodagh. Determined to secure her mother's elusive love and the truth about her, Clodagh is swept into a relationship with a handsome, isolated man. He brings her to the heart of her mother's story, where she must confront the questions "Does a truth change love?" and "What madness will come from chasing a secret?""--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Mothers and daughters, Women, Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Ireland, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction
Places: Ireland