Binding: Paperback
Date Published: 10 Sep 2026
In a quiet corner of rural Ireland, Ciarán lives as an unfulfilled poet and teacher. Struggling with the recent loss of his father, grief settles into his days, intertwined with the quiet responsibility of caring for his ageing mother and supporting his wife as she faces cancer.
The world around him continues in its steady rhythms, the seasons shifting, the land holding its silence, while Ciarán turns inward, drifting through memory, regret, and a faint, flickering sense that meaning might still be found.
Then, in the stillness between dusk and night, something begins to change. Not redemption, but a gentle illumination, a new way of seeing and the quiet strength of enduring.
Tender and lyrical, The Light at Evening is a poignant reflection on grief, on memory and on the fragile moments of grace that shape a life.