Set in a post-war London still recovering from the Blitz, The Water Star follows the intertwining lives of five characters. Brendan, his son Hugh, and Sarah, are Irish; another, Karl, is German, while Elizabeth, an Eastender who has moved to Citizen Road in Holloway to better her life, is English. As Erica Wagner remarked in her review in The Times, 'Through the interweaving and the overlapping of these relationships, Casey examines how human nature is shaped by sorrow; how people will find a way - sometimes, it seems, despite themselves - to take comfort from others, to make homes where they can, even among the ruins.' Philip Casey's second novel, The Water Star, confronts the central Irish experience of the twentieth century: exile. It is distinguished by the finely wrought lyricism that has characterized much of his poetry. His first novel, The Fabulists, won acclaim; his new one confirms that he is a writer with a gift for uncovering the tortuous impulses of his characters with...

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