Langrishe, Go Down - Aidan Higgins (Paperback) 13-07-2017 Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1966 (UK) and Irish Academy of Letters Award 1966 (Ireland).

The lights in the bus burned dim, orange-hued behind opaque bevelled glass; ranged below the luggage racks they lit up the advertisement panels with repeated circles of bilious light. A white face that never seemed to turn away was watching her in the glass. Imogen Langrishe, the youngest of four sisters, embarks on a reckless love affair with a charismatic and indigent German scholar. Her family's name has long been a byword for money, status and respectability in Celbridge, County Kildare, but the world is now changing.