The Naming Of Eliza Quinn by Carol Birch - ISBN: 9781844081462
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A child’s bones whisper secrets of famine, family, and forgotten Ireland.

The Naming Of Eliza Quinn

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    17 October 2006

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Summary

This is an extraordinarily haunting novel, inspired by a true story. In the late 1960s, in the hollow of an ancient oak tree beyond a derelict cottage in Cork, the bones of a three-year-old girl were found. It was thought that they dated back to the time of the great potato famine of the mid 1800s. The bones were discovered by an American woman, who had inherited the cottage which had lain empty and broken for forty years. Local searches reveal that the house had originally belonged to The Qu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781844081462
ISBN-10:184408146X
Author:Carol Birch
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:17 October 2006
Weight:248g
Dimensions:198mm x 139mm x 22mm
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Critics Review

Always understated, yet crammed with incidents of the highest drama. - D.J. Taylor, Guardian.

A fascinating story, exquisitely written, with as many layers as an onion…Birch raises lost spirits with the authority of a born storyteller. - Times.

Carol Birch’s fiction…continues to stretch bodies and minds to breaking point…marvellous and terrifying. - Sunday Times

About The Author

Carol Birch

Carol Birch was born in Manchester. Author of seven novels, she has won the David Higham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was longlisted for the 2003 ManBooker Prize. She lives in Lancaster.

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