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Riverhead Trade (2002), Edition: First Edition, Paperback, 529 pages
Description
From one of Ireland's most talented journalists, an extraordinary fiction debut, compelling, colourful and romantic. Kathleen is a 49-year-old travel writer, an Irishwoman based in London who has not been back to Ireland since she was twenty. Her home is her office, her family and friends a few close colleagues. She has not experienced passion since she was young. When, over the course of a few weeks, the props of her life fall away one after another, it is to passion that she turns - not in her own life, but in the fragmentary account of a scandalous affair in 19th century rural Ireland, between the wife of a big Anglo-Irish landlord, and her servant. And so Kathleen is drawn back to Ireland, to see whether she can find out more...
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Awards
Audie Award (Finalist — 2002)
LA Times Book Prize (Finalist — 2001)
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Physical description
529 p.; 7.9 inches
ISBN
1573229083 / 9781573229081