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Description for The Living
Paperback. The Irish nation is at peace. Violence and segregation are consigned to history, stories to be told and not forgotten. Yet for the first generation to come of age in Ireland's flimsy peacetime, the ghosts of the past are all too close to home. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 333.
Cate Houlihan, recent Trinity graduate, is adrift in a life that doesn't feel her own. Struggling with a new job at an eccentric Dublin publishing house and stifled by overbearing parents, her one sanctuary is singing in the prestigious Carmina Urbana choir. When romance blossoms with the choir's newest member - the older, opaque and British Mathew Taylor - it seems as if things might be starting to go Cate's way. But when her job brings her into contact with the recent Republican past, and she fears she is being followed, Cate's entire world becomes ... Read more
Cate Houlihan, recent Trinity graduate, is adrift in a life that doesn't feel her own. Struggling with a new job at an eccentric Dublin publishing house and stifled by overbearing parents, her one sanctuary is singing in the prestigious Carmina Urbana choir. When romance blossoms with the choir's newest member - the older, opaque and British Mathew Taylor - it seems as if things might be starting to go Cate's way. But when her job brings her into contact with the recent Republican past, and she fears she is being followed, Cate's entire world becomes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782391678
SKU
9781782391678
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Ref
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About Lean Cullinan
Lean Cullinan grew up in a distinguished literary family and has been writing since childhood. She is a graduate of the MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin and sings in one of Ireland's finest choirs. She lives in Dublin with one husband and two sons.
Reviews for The Living
Lean Cullinan's elegantly written debut novel is both a coming of age story and a compelling thriller.
Irish Times
Confident and likeable debut novel - its likeability manifest in its lively narrator... I look forward to whatever Cullinan will write next.
Irish Independent
Irish Times
Confident and likeable debut novel - its likeability manifest in its lively narrator... I look forward to whatever Cullinan will write next.
Irish Independent