Used book – The Memory of the Tides, Karen Viggers

Mary is old, and her health is deteriorating. She decides to spend her last days on Bruny Island, a windswept island in Tasmania where she lived her happiest years with her husband, the lighthouse keeper. Returning to her beloved land feels like a pilgrimage. Between memories and regrets, Mary revisits the places of her former life to try and right her wrongs. Accompanied by Tom, the only one of her children to understand her decision, a solitary man since his return from Antarctica and the divorce that shattered him, she wants to find peace before she dies. But the secret that has haunted her for decades threatens to be revealed and jeopardize her fragile balance.

A woman at the twilight of her life, a man unable to fully enjoy his own, a moving story of love, loss, and unspoken words against a backdrop of wild and mysterious nature.

Absolutely sublime. Gérard Collard, La Griffe noire bookstore.