This is an ambitious and unforgettable story with all the warmth and emotional intensity of James Ryan's first novel, Home From England. Set in the rural Ireland that James Ryan portrays so evocatively, it is the story of five women, looking back to their girlhoods in the faraway world of the 30s, and coming slowly to terms in their own ways with the single traumatic event that forever changed their lives. As war threatened in Europe, life in rural Templeard went on as usual. Flossie, Nora, Margaret, Ber, and the baby Girlie were as close as girls could be, and their life was the nearby convent boarding school and the long summers on their father's farm. Looking back to those moments before tragedy struck, Nora, the girl with the voice of a bird, is at last free.
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“Irish novelist Ryan’s first US publication is a fine, evocative story of loss and remembrance.” -- Kirkus Reviews
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James Ryan grew up in County Laois, Ireland, and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1975. He teaches English and History at a comprehensive school in Dublin. He lives in Dublin with his wife, a journalist, and their two children.
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