Beloved Stranger

What happens when madness shatters a marriage? An acclaimed Irish novelist explores this question in a comic—and heartbreaking —contemporary take on King Lear.

Part love story, part thriller, Beloved Stranger is also an analysis of marriage—a changeless institution in a vastly altered world, a private dictatorship where love and fear, tenderness and tyranny, remain hidden at its heart.

Author Biography: Clare Boylan is the author of three volumes of short stories and six novels, the most recent being Beloved Stranger. She lives in Ireland.