Life Sentences

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<p><b>*THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER*</b><br><b><br>'Momentous and epic' BERNARD MACLAVERTY</b><br><b>'Superb and moving' JOHN BANVILLE</b><br><b>'A lovely, piercing book' SEBASTIAN BARRY</b><br><br><b>Three generations. More than a century of famine, war, violence and love. </b><br><br>At sixteen Nancy, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine, leaves her small island for the mainland. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City, she feels irrepressibly drawn to the charismatic gardener Michael Egan, sparking a love affair that soon throws her into a fight for her life. <br><br>In 1920, Nancy's son Jer has lived through battles of his own as a soldier in the Great War. Now drunk in a jail cell, he struggles to piece together where he has come from, and who he wants to be. <br><br>And in the early 1980s, Jer's youngest child Nellie is nearing the end of her life in a council house, moments away from her childhood home; remembering the night when she and her family stole back something that was rightfully theirs, she imagines what lies in store for those who will survive her.<br><br><b>'Brilliantly immerses us in its respective time periods'<i> SUNDAY TIMES</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529112962

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

197 x 126 x 19 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Vintage Publishing