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James Ryan - South of the Border - 9781843511342 - V9781843511342
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South of the Border

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Description for South of the Border Paperback.

It is autumn 1942, and young Balbriggan teacher Matt Duggan arrives on his first posting at the small town of Rathisland in the Irish midlands, barely alive to the global war raging outside. Lawn tennis alternates with Church and classroom politics, as rehearsals take place for a staging of Hamlet. Beneath the surface are pockets of support for Germany, and plans afoot to link up with the Wehrmacht. Matt has a mesmerizing first encounter with nineteen-year-old Madelene Coll and, as she edges her way out from the watchful eyes of her aunts, she and Matt enter a world they will ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843511342
SKU
V9781843511342
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 3 to 5 working days
Ref
99-10

About James Ryan
James Ryan is a native of Rathdowney, Co. Laois and graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. He is a writer and university lecturer at the School of English and Drama, University College Dublin. His previous novels include Home from England (1995), Dismantling Mr Doyle (1997) and Seeds of Doubt (2001).

Reviews for South of the Border
‘This is the work of a major historical novelist. But it is something more than that too: the term “historical novel” has a reductive ring to it, as would the description “political novel”. What we get here is imaginative fiction of a high order, built on reliable documentation and a historian’s insight, all written with impeccable style and narrative compulsion. ... Read more

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