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Lake Union Publishing
March 2015
On Sale: March 17, 2015
Featuring: Ruby; Henry Shevlin
396 pages
ISBN: 1477827455
EAN: 9781477827455
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Women's Fiction
When Ruby Clare's father was alive, they toiled together
happily on their dairy farm in Northern Ireland. Since his
death, Ruby—thirty-three, plump but comely—has been forced
indoors and made a domestic drudge for Martha, her
endlessly critical mother, and her prettier younger
sisters, May and June. But everything changes when Ruby finds her late
grandmother's old case in the attic. Among its strange
contents: a curious, handmade volume called The Book of
Light. As Ruby delves into its mysterious pages, she's enticed
into a most beguiling world, whose allure and magnetic
power she finds irresistible. Martha, convinced that her newly empowered daughter is
going crazy, enlists the help of the kindly parish priest,
and then psychiatrist Henry Shevlin. Henry appears
imperturbable, yet is inwardly reeling from his wife's
unexplained disappearance the previous year. As Ruby undergoes therapy, she meets local bachelor farmer
Jamie McCloone. Through their shared loneliness and
isolation the two find the courage to connect. But will
Ruby's mother allow her daughter the happiness she so
richly deserves? The Godforsaken Daughter is an unforgettable peek into
small-town life in Ireland's recent past. It's a glorious
successor to McKenna's first two “Tailorstown” novels, The
Misremembered Man and The Disenchanted Widow.
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