The Ante-Room (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781844083176)

Ireland, 1880 and a prosperous, provincial family observes the three great autumnal feasts of the Church. As Teresa Mulqueen lies dying, her family gather round her and beneath this drama another, no less poignant, unfolds. Unmarried daughter Agnes awaits the return of her sister Marie-Rose and brother-in-law Vincent. She adores her sister, but secretly, pasionately, loves Vincent. And their marriage, she knows, is unhappy...Ahead lies a terrible battle between her uncompromising faith and the intensity of her love. In this delicately imagined novel, originally published in 1934, Kate O'Brien lays bare the struggles between personal need and the Catholic faith with the sympathy and insight which is the hallmark of her craft.

Author: Kate O'Brien
ISBN-10: 1844083179
ISBN-13: 9781844083176
Publisher: Virago Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2006
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.76d