He had met her three times and three times forgotten all about her...
William Barrow finds himself in lonely retirement in West Cork. Once an internationally renowned pianist, a terrible skin disease has attacked his hands and made it impossible for him to perform. All he can play, haltingly, is Ravel''s Concerto for the Left Hand.
Tara is a piano teacher with barely enough pupils to pay the month''s rent. In the local caf-the elegant writing of a job advertisement catches her eye: ''Wanted. Housekeeper.''
She begins to work in William''s house, keeping to herself the knowledge that they have met three times before - encounters that have changed her life, to which he is oblivious. When William stumbles upon a well in the back garden, Tara finds herself longing for revenge. She spins tales of a mythical saint, of the healing powers of the water and of the moss that surrounds it. But as the moss begins to heal William''s troubled hands, the lines between le
