The Magnificent Desolation

Duncans Whole world is the orphanage where he lives. Aged ten, he is sure that his mother is dead until the day she turns up to claim him. Maggie Bright, a soprano who was once the talent of her generation, now sings in a run-down bar through a haze of whisky and regret. she often finishes up in the arms of Joshua McGreevey, a Vietnam vet who earns his living as part of a tunnelling crew seventy feet beneath the Bay.