
The Naming Of Eliza Quinn
$27.99
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2006
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 |
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| 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 TimesAbout 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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