The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted for The Booker Prize. Can this makeshift family unit face up to the illness and each other? A sister, a mother and a grandmother, along with two gay friends, have come together to tend to 29-year-old Declan, who has the disease. It’s 90s Ireland and HIV/AIDS is still a terminal diagnosis.
“When I was young, lying in bed, I used to believe that Tuskar was a man and the Blackwater Lightship was a woman and they were both sending signals to each other and to other lighthouses, like mating calls.”
The world Premiere of Colm Tóibín’s piercing novel about a broken family, making a family of your own and the cost of caring for each other.
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