The Empty Family

Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, and critic born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford in 1955. He studied at University College Dublin and worked as a journalist in Barcelona before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of The South (1990), The Heather Blazing (1992), The Story of the Night (1996), The Blackwater Lightship (1999), The Master (2004), Brooklyn (2009), Nora Webster (2014), and House of Names (2017). Read more →