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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781844083152

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Its captivating account of a young Irish woman's year as a governess in Spain in 1922 bowled me over with its weave of flawless prose, in-depth casting and mesmerising plot, all in service of its heartbroken story of illicit love
Irish Times
A superior type of romantic novel . . . quasi-intelligent and discursive, colourful and unorthodox
Times Literary Supplement
With characteristic elegance and subtlety, Kate O'Brien, one of Ireland's most beloved writers, illuminates the anguish and ecstasies of a young woman at the heart of a family and a nation divided
Library Thing
She writes with almost poetic intensity of the ecstasy and anguish of love
Val Hennessy
There's some brilliant and powerful writing . . . a description of a bull-fight that rivals Hemingway . . . dramatic . . . smooth. It's a grand job. She deserves to be better known, as few are doing more significant work
Kirkus Reviews