Úrscéal a théann faoin gcraiceann, ó dhuine de na scríbhneoirí is cumasaí dár gcuid: ‘Chas Peadar Ó Luineacháin isteach i Sráid Dásoin. Chuir an róló seacláide deireanach ina bhéal is chaith an páipéar le casán....' Tá rud éigin cearr leis na príomhcharachtair san úrscéal seo. De réir mar a ghluaiseann an scéal ar aghaidh is ea a thuigimid gur scéal dorcha é seo. Úrscéal é seo atá i bhfad chun tosaigh (agus i bhfad níos fírinní) ná úrscéalta mórdhíola Richard Harris ar an ábhar céanna.
Set in mid-17th century Ireland and Continental Europe, the narrative in An Cléireach is triggered by a single event that takes place during the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland, when a small band of the retreating Irishry gather on the side of a mountain and, despite the threat of massacre, for one night the rain lifts, the stars shine, and art and dreams take centre stage.
Liz is twenty seven years old and has been quite successful in life. She has a good husband, a son and a daughter, and they live in a comfortable house by the river in a coastal town not far from the city. Yet, she is bored, or thinks she is. A sparingly written account of the two years spent by three young people together, from the arrival of the stranger to the parting of companions. In the words of the female narrator, 'Maurice was prudent. Add to that my romantic view, and George's tragic view, and you have three sides of our small triangle'.
