Don't Mention Her by Kirwan, Jane

Don't Mention Her (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530940127)

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Don't Mention Her by Kirwan, Jane

Don't Mention Her

$14.23
Don't Mention Her by Kirwan, Jane

Don't Mention Her

$14.23
Format: Paperback
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Claire, five-year-old daughter of Irish doctors, Connie and Liam, dies suddenly in 1963. The novel follows the devastation in the family - consequences that reverberate over the next fifty years. There's the shock as Connie deserts Liam and their children and the mystery of the pact she makes with Anne, a Catholic nun. All who witnessed the child's death, even the youngest, feel responsible and have their own stories as they leave home, reject religion, start careers. Connie's ambivalence about mothering seems to follow the next generation of women. One cousin, most deeply affected, tries to escape the past as she takes up work in Nigeria. Do her choices repeat Connie's actions? And to whom does it fall to fulfil the pact Connie made fifty years before? A heartbreaking story of motherhood and the limitations of love.

Author: Jane Kirwan
ISBN-10: 1530940125
ISBN-13: 9781530940127
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/21/2016
Pages: 406
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.90d
By Jane Kirwan
By Jane Kirwan
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Jane Kirwan's poetry collections Stealing the Eiffel Tower (1997) and The Man Who Sold Mirrors (2003) and Second Exile (poems with prose by Ales Machacek) were published by Rockingham Press and a Czech version Druhy Exil in 2011 by Novela Bohemica. She won an Arts Council Writers' Award in 2002, been commended and won prizes in several competitions including the National and Hippocrates, has appeared on Czech television and read at festivals in the UK and abroad. In May 2013 Hippocrates Press published Born in the NHS, an A-Z of poetry, prose, memoir and facts written with Wendy French, 'conceived' when they were talking about the threats to the NHS.

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