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Overview
Grace Quinn is an Englishwoman living in rural Ireland. Isolated by religion and circumstance, she endures both an abusive husband and a strained relationship with her son, Martin, whose open homosexuality her husband refused to accept. After an act of desperation, reeling with doubt and denial, she seeks out her son in Dublin. Keith Ridgway "affectingly renders the separate sanctuaries of mother and son . . .and lights the distance between them" (The New Yorker).
Editorials
Library Journal
In this debut novel, an Englishwoman living in Ireland finds herself an outsider even in her own family.Library Journal
In this debut novel, an Englishwoman living in Ireland finds herself an outsider even in her own family.Rosemary Mahoney
What part does love play in judgments of right and wrong, good and evil? There are, of course, no easy answers. . .'I shouldn't have done it' [;] her words are a dreadful reminder that much of life's consequences are. . .dictated by the tragedy of the ill-considered action. . . -- The New York Times Book ReviewBook Details
Published
May 1, 1998
Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Pages
205
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780395905302