A moving coming-of-age novel that takes you back to the impetuousness of youth, and the bitter-sweet intensity of first love 'There's a full moon riding sated over the turnip fields, a thousand miles away it's looking down on a red-haired woman parting the curtains, looking out for a lover or her husband, further west it's calling the tides up the glistening walls of Horn Head...' From the poetic vistas of Ireland to the romance of Strasbourg, Harry's intense teenage love affair with Marie has haunted his life. French, exotic Marie whom he has vowed to find again... The dramatic emotions of youth, the intensities of sexual awakening, the mistakes that have left him bruised, but still wanting, are the haunting companions to the quest for Marie. Marie, who slipped from his grasp all those years ago...