Edna O'Brien
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. Broodingly handsome, worldly, and charismatic, Dr. Vladimir Dragan is a poet, a self-proclaimed holistic healer, and a welcome disruption to the monotony of village life. Before long, the beautiful black-haired Fidelma McBride falls under his spell and, defying the shackles of wedlock and convention, turns to him to cure her of her deepest pains....
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
1987, c1986
Physical Desc
531 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba Brennan. This trilogy tells the story of their escape from countryside and convent out into the world, into the bright city lights of Dublin and, naive and reckless, into a whirl of flirtations and passionate misadventures.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London. The epochs of her life pass before her; she also retraces Eleanora's precipitate marriage to a foreigner, which alienated mother and daughter, and Dilly's heart-rending letters sent over the years in a determination to reclaim her daughter. But Eleanora's visit does not prove to be the glad reunion Dilly prayed for. And in her hasty departure,
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