The Mermaids Singing
There is an island off the west coast of Ireland called Inis Murúch -- theIsland of the Mermaids -- a world where myth is more powerful than truth, and love can overcome even death. It is here that Lisa Carey sets her lyrical and sensual first novel, weaving together the voices and lives of three...
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There is an island off the west coast of Ireland called Inis Murúch -- theIsland of the Mermaids -- a world where myth is more powerful than truth, and love can overcome even death. It is here that Lisa Carey sets her lyrical and sensual first novel, weaving together the voices and lives of three generations of Irish and Irish-American women.Years ago, the fierce and beautiful Grace stole away from the island with her small daughter, Gráinne, unable to bear its isolation. Now Gráinne is motherless at fifteen, and a grandmother she has never met has come to take her back. Her heart is pulled between a life in which she no longer belongs and a family she cannot remember. But only on Inis Murúch can she begin to understand the forces that have torn her family apart.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780380815593 (0380815591)
Publish date: November 6th 2001
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Irish Literature,
Mermaids,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Womens
The story of three generations of women and how their lives mirror each other, yet stay different. What they are all looking for is love and a home but the searching doesn't always find what they're looking for. This is one of the few books I've read by someone from the US that doesn't make me w...
The story of three generations of women and how their lives mirror each other, yet stay different. What they are all looking for is love and a home but the searching doesn't always find what they're looking for. This is one of the few books I've read by someone from the US that doesn't make me want ...