Description
Married to an enigmatic architect, the son of an ecclesiastical family, Deirdre O'Breen struggles to reconcile the secrets, memories, and pain of the past with the relationships and life of the present, in an evocative story of marriage, motherhood, love, and letting go set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century Dublin. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Deirdre O'Breen is fourteen when she flees the primitive Great Blasket Island, leaving a stunning family secret in her wake before she arrives on the mainland. There, she finds a foreign, civilized world -- and Manus, the architect son of a wealthy, devout family. Together Deirdre and Manus build a marriage that, like Dublin itself, is fraught with hope and threatened by legacies. When Deirdre's secret resurfaces, she is forced to confront the questions "How much of our parents do we carry? Do their sins and frailties shape who we become to our own children?"
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