Forgotten Waltz, The

Author: Anne Enright After months of silent longing, meaningful looks, and frustratingly brief public encounters, I finally got to curl up in bed with The Forgotten Waltz for a full, unfettered weekend. Yet — much like the extramarital affair it describes — this highly-praised book is full of deferrals and delays, promising big things and then pushing them out to the horizon until, suddenly and disappointingly, it’s over. Gina Moynihan is in her late twenties and married to the gentle, affable Conor when she first sees Sean Vallely, the man she’ll have a double-marriage-wrecking affair with (this isn’t a spoiler [...]