Lois Farquar struggles to find her own identity and live her own life amid the family and guests of aristocrats Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, at their country home in 1920s southern Ireland, while, all around them, the end of British rule and their treasured way of life rapidly approaches. Reprint. (A Trimark Pictures film, releasing Spring 2000, produced by Neil Jordan, written by John Banville, starring Maggie Smith & Michael Gambon) (Historical Fiction)