Summary
An achingly beautiful novel about a mother forced to choose between her God and her only son.
Sitting alone in her Dublin nursing home, Harriet Campbell reflects on a life that has become tainted by bitterness and regret. From a strictly Presbyterian community along the Irish border, at sixteen young Harriet is married off to Thomas, a respected church Elder but a cold, sober man twice her age. The birth of her son James, a bright boy destined for great things, brings joy and light to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784163129 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784163120 |
| Author: | Norma MacMaster |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 7 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 18mm |
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“Richly portrayed in tight, lucid prose” - - Sunday Independent
Epic … A stirring novel about redemption, and a way of living soon best forgotten * RTE Culture *
Richly portrayed in tight, lucid prose * Sunday Independent *
MacMaster’s debut novel is bright with promise * RTE Guide *
Lyrical * Irish Examiner *
Remarkable … Timeless … Graceful * Irish Independent *
An engrossing debut … not just an elegy for a lost world, it also helps explain the intransigence of traditional attitudes in the North and the border counties * The Phoenix *
About The Author
Norma MacMaster
Norma MacMaster was born and reared in County Cavan before continuing her studies in Derry, Dublin, Belfast and Montreal. She was a secondary school teacher and counsellor in Ireland and Canada and was ordained a minister of the Church of Ireland in 2004. A contributor to Sunday Miscellany on RTE Radio 1, she is the author of a memoir, Over My Shoulder. She and her late husband have one daughter. Norma lives by the sea in North County Dublin, and wrote Silence Under A Stone ‘a bit now and a bit then’, typing with two fingers in her attic. It is her first novel.
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