β Scribed by Sam Hanna Bell
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Paperback, 262 pages
Published 1951
Blackstaff Press (2011)
Callil-Toibin 200 Best Novels (1950-1999)
A classic novel of Ulster life by one of the twentieth centrury's greatest writers. Sarah Gomartin, the servant girl on Andrew Echlin's farm, bears a child to one of Andrew's sons. But which one? Her steadfast refusal over many years to 'bend and contrive things' by choosing one of the brothers reverberates through the puritan Ulster community to which she belongs, alienating clergy and neighbours, hastening her mother's death and casting a cold shadow on the lives of her children.?
βA Hardyesque story of a tragedy of passion on the shores of Strangford Lough ... perhaps the best novel about Northern Irish life which has yet appearedβ --Irish Times
βa quiet, compassionate storyβ--New York Times
βinvested with a disquieting and sullen beautyβ--Saturday Review of Literature
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