Temptation Author:Dermot Bolger Alison Gill stands on the cusp of middle age, assailed by doubts about her marriage and insecurities about her changing body. Her expectations of life have dwindled until they are all contained in the five-day break the family spends each year at Fitzgerald's Hotel in Wexford. When her husband is recalled suddenly to Dublin, Alis... more »on's longed-for holiday seems doomed, but the reappearance of old flame Chris Conway appears to offer other possibilities. Whether Alison can or will offer Conway the succour he needs is revealed in a beautifully understated novel whose portrait of a self-doubting woman is handled with rare and sensitive perspicacity. « less