The Magdalen

Informationen zum Autor Marita Conlon-McKenna is one of Ireland's favourite authors. Her books include the award-winning Under the Hawthorn Tree which is set during Ireland’s great famine. Widely translated and published, it is now considered an Irish classic. Her other books include bestsellers The Magdalen and Rebel Sisters . She is a winner of the International Reading Association Award, USA and a former chairperson of Irish PEN. Marita lives in Dublin with her husband and family. Klappentext Esther Doyle is a young Irish girl growing up in a small fishing community in Connemara in the 1950s. Her life is a stable one, bound by the slow rhythms of farming life and the joy of looking after her handicapped sister Nonie. Zusammenfassung Esther Doyle is a young Irish girl growing up in a small fishing community in Connemara in the 1950s. Her life is a stable one, bound by the slow rhythms of farming life and the joy of looking after her handicapped sister Nonie.

Product details

• Authors: Marita Conlon-McKenna, Conlon-McKenna Marita
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.07.2013
• EAN: 9780857502414
• ISBN: 978-0-85750-241-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 205 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Dublin, Connemara, FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, c 1950 to c 1959