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Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
Ruth Gilligan
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Description for Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
Paperback. The Irish bestseller about putting down roots in unfamiliar soil; about falling in love; and about how tradition and tales are born, nurtured and handed from one generation to the next. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Rich in plot and full of characters that have been neglected by Irish literature. - Guardian At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from the continent in search of a better life in America, only to pitch up in Ireland by mistake. In 1958, a mute boy locked away in a mental institution outside of Dublin forms an unlikely friendship with a man consumed by the story of the love he lost nearly two decades earlier. And in present-day London, an Irish journalist is forced to confront her conflicting notions ... Read more
Rich in plot and full of characters that have been neglected by Irish literature. - Guardian At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from the continent in search of a better life in America, only to pitch up in Ireland by mistake. In 1958, a mute boy locked away in a mental institution outside of Dublin forms an unlikely friendship with a man consumed by the story of the love he lost nearly two decades earlier. And in present-day London, an Irish journalist is forced to confront her conflicting notions ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782398592
SKU
KRA0004876
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ruth Gilligan
Ruth Gilligan is an Irish novelist and journalist. She has written three previous novels: Forget, which reached number one on the Irish Bestsellers' List when she was 19, making her the youngest person in Ireland ever to have done so, and Somewhere In Between and Can You See Me, both published while she was still at university. She writes and ... Read more
Reviews for Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
Rich in plot and full of characters that have been neglected by Irish literature
Guardian
Brimming with concepts and yarns
Irish Times
Immensely readable and written with great flair
Irish Independent
A rich and layered story of the complications, the mistakes and the heartbreaks of which a human life is made... I haven't read ... Read more
Guardian
Brimming with concepts and yarns
Irish Times
Immensely readable and written with great flair
Irish Independent
A rich and layered story of the complications, the mistakes and the heartbreaks of which a human life is made... I haven't read ... Read more