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Fifty-two-year-old Hannie Bennet finds Irish village life constricting when she enters into a marriage of convenience with writer Ned Renvyle. "Hardie . . . explores questions of aging and mortality, idealism and cynicism . . . and the responsibility that comes with marriage as she takes Hannie's story to its dark but hopeful climax."--"Publishers Weekly."
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Marrying for financial security instead of love, Hannie Bennet--divorced three times and widowed by her fourth husband--marries Ned Renvyle, a writer and world traveler settling down on a farm in the Irish countryside, only to find her marriage has become a prison and she is alienated from those around her, until her troubled teenage son forces her to make an impossible choice. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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