With the subtlety of Ian McEwan and the pathos of Kazuo Ishiguro a wisecompassionate novel about age loss and moving forward. As he moves towardold age David Cr... » 

With the subtlety of Ian McEwan and the pathos of Kazuo Ishiguro a wisecompassionate novel about age loss and moving forward. As he moves towardold age David Cross finds himself living an unexpected new life. Having losthis wife Nancy to illness and retired from his job as a prominent televisionnews anchor David is working out in the gym and becoming very thin. Hischildren Ed and Lucy embarking on careers and lives on their own suspect himof being on the lookout for a new woman. He cannot tell them that he is insome ways happier than he was before Nancy died. As Ed and his dancer wifeRosalie struggle to conceive a child and Lucy seeks refuge from a chaotic exboyfriend all of them are now forced to face their lives without the woman whowas the center of the family. With their personal lives spinning out ofcontrol they each must find a way to hold firm. And when David goes to see hisestranged brother deep in the African desert he will come to an unexpectedmeaningful and lifeaffirming epiphany. Filled with rich characterizationwarm humor and shocking surprises To Heaven by Water is a masterwork ofgreat subtlety a moving novel from a keen observer of life as we live it now. «