TY - BOOK AU - Tóibín, Colm TI - Nora webster SN - 9780141041759 U1 - N PY - 2015/// CY - Gurgaon PB - Penguin Books KW - Widows KW - Fiction KW - Mothers and sons KW - Self-realization in women N2 - Widowed in her forties, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning empathy and kindness, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven-- herself ER -