A review by bgg616
April in Spain by John Banville

4.0

Quirke has gone to northern Spain for a beach holiday with his wife, a psychiatrist, Evelyn. While there he thinks he sees a woman who was declared dead in Ireland several years before. Quirke cannot let sleeping dogs lie and soon sets in motion a chain of events that leads to a climatic ending.

Banville writes characters with precise details whether they are primary characters or play a limited role. The care he takes to draw a picture of everyone who shows up in this novel was part of the pleasure of reading it.