Editions
- paperback· 279 pp9781850221807
First published 1963
The road to Leenane
Heat level
Warm
Set amid the beautiful mountains and lakes of Ireland's Connemara, here is the story of Micky Renvyle, a talented painter and of the three women who loved him: Paddy his childhood sweetheart and later his wife, whose meteoric success as an actress takes her to London, away from husband, child and Church; Lady Constance, a wealthy older women whose interest in Micky's work develops into something far more personal; and young sensitive Joan tormented by her ever deepening love for a married man yet with an utter devotion to her Catholic faith.