Mothers and sons

Colm Tóibín's Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships.

Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons.

This is an acute, masterful and moving collection that confirms Tóibín as a great prose stylist of our time.