Skylight

<p>Called &#145;the book lost and found in time&#146; by its author <i>Skylight </i>is one of Saramago&#146;s earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers&#146; offices in Lisbon for decades and is only now being published in English.<br><br> Lisbon late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There&#146;s the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money clothes and jewellery; the cultivated family come down in the world who live only for each other and for music; and the beautiful typist whose boss can&#146;t keep his eyes off her. Poisonous relationships happy marriages jealousy gossip and love &#150; <i>Skylight</i> brings together all the joys and grief of ordinary people.</p>