Publisher's Synopsis
Who is Arthur Mulrooney? In the years following World War II, he arrives in the tiny hamlet of Little Bridge to spend his twilight years with his friend George Wallace. There is some doubt surrounding his past as a merchant seaman, and his obsession to remain anonymous arouses the suspicions of some of the villagers. When he unwittingly becomes involved in the lives of a young woman, her daughter and abusive husband, he is thrust into an attention he is so desperate to avoid, with dramatic consequences. It is only at the end that we discover who Arthur Mulrooney really is.
