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Aitken, Molly.
Subjects
Girls -- Fiction.
Islands -- Ireland -- Fiction.
Motherhood -- Fiction.
Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Women -- Psychology -- Fiction.
Superstition -- Fiction.
Ireland -- Fiction.
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Aitken, Molly.
Girls -- Fiction.
Islands -- Ireland -- Fiction.
Motherhood -- Fiction.
Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Women -- Psychology -- Fiction.
Superstition -- Fiction.
Ireland -- Fiction.
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The island child : a novel / Molly Aitken.
by
Aitken, Molly.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION
AIT
Subjects
Girls --
Fiction
.
Islands -- Ireland --
Fiction
.
Motherhood --
Fiction
.
Women -- Social conditions --
Fiction
.
Women -- Psychology --
Fiction
.
Superstition --
Fiction
.
Ireland --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780525658375 (hc.)
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
335 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"A Borzoi Book"--T.p. verso.
Summary:
"A spellbinding, deeply felt debut novel--haunting and poignant, soaring and gorgeously wrought--about motherhood, freedom, and our own power to shape our destinies. Oona grew up on the island of Inis: a wind-blasted rock off the coast of Ireland where the men went out on fishing boats and the women tended sheep; where the only book was the Bible; and where girls stayed at home until they became mothers themselves. Even as a child, Oona knew she wanted to leave, but she never could have anticipated the tumultuous turn of events that would ultimately compel her to flee. Now, after twenty years--Oona having forged a new life for herself--her daughter vanishes, forcing Oona to face her past in order, finally, to be free of it. Heralding a singularly gifted new voice in
fiction
, The Island Child is a timeless story of birth and betrayal, storms and shipwrecks and fairy children, and the weight of long-buried secrets"--Publisher.
Genre:
Psychological
fiction
.
First novel.
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