Set in Belfast, this novel opens with a typically senseless 1970 doorstep killing in which the wrong brother is killed. Joan Lingard also wrote "The Second Flowering of Emily Mountjay" and "Reasonable... This description may be from another edition of this product.
written with a orginal style, it gave an interesting insight
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
I found this book very interesting in some parts and boring in others. Joan lingard captured the essence of the three girls' realtionship and innocence in a way of such reality it's truly amazing. I especially enjoyed the way Joan Lingard expressed the different religions and the views on them. "Teresa I could not epect to share my religon: her own was too important, but Rosie she was not religous." I thought this book showed how their friendship brought them together and their religon separated them. A very well written novel which I would reccomend to any who was interested in a fictional look at Ireland read.
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