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Description for Rainsongs
Paperback.
Award-winning writer Sue Hubbard delivers a poignant story of transformation, conjuring the rugged beauty of County Kerry's coastline. Newly widowed, Martha Cassidy has returned to a remote cottage in a virtually abandoned village on the west coast of Ireland for reasons even she is uncertain of. Looking out from her window towards the dramatic rise of the Skelligs across the water, she reflects on the loss of Brendan, her husband and charming curator, his death stirring unresolved heartache from years gone by. Alone on the windswept headland, surrounded by miles of cold sea, ... Read more
Award-winning writer Sue Hubbard delivers a poignant story of transformation, conjuring the rugged beauty of County Kerry's coastline. Newly widowed, Martha Cassidy has returned to a remote cottage in a virtually abandoned village on the west coast of Ireland for reasons even she is uncertain of. Looking out from her window towards the dramatic rise of the Skelligs across the water, she reflects on the loss of Brendan, her husband and charming curator, his death stirring unresolved heartache from years gone by. Alone on the windswept headland, surrounded by miles of cold sea, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Duckworth
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780715652855
SKU
9780715652855
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Ref
99-2
About Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard is an art critic, novelist and poet and she has contributed regularly to a wide range of publications including the New Statesman and The Independent, and has also written for The Times and The Guardian. She has contributed to many arts programmes, including Kaleidoscope and Night Waves. In 2006 she was awarded a major Arts Council Literary Award. ... Read more
Reviews for Rainsongs
'A wool-soaked odyssey on the Iveragh peninsula I could feel and smell the rain all the way through, and when the sun broke in now and then, I felt that too... tremendous and moving'
The Irish Times
'An elegiac story of loss and valediction... Woolfian echoes pulse through haunting the reader.'
Guardian
'A gently absorbing novel... ... Read more
The Irish Times
'An elegiac story of loss and valediction... Woolfian echoes pulse through haunting the reader.'
Guardian
'A gently absorbing novel... ... Read more