Eclipse

Alexander Cleave has never been able to rid himself of the feeling that he is in a perpetual state of being watched - even when alone. So he became an actor, and performed his way through life until suddenly, at his peak, he staggered off stage, never to return. Self-banished to his childhood home and cut off from his wife, Cleave begins to unravel the past. But his attempt to sift the accumulated clutter of half a century of existence is undermined by the house itself, brimming with lives, both ghostly and undeniably human. Memory constantly displaces Cleave's attention to the small, delicate details of the present as does his anxiety about the future.

This humane story tells the tragic tale of a man, intelligent, preposterous and vulnerable, who in attempting to bring the performance to a close, finds himself travelling inevitably toward a devastating denouement.