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The Butterfly Cabinet
The Butterfly Cabinet: A Novel | Bernie McGill
Now in her nineties and living in a Northern Ireland nursing home, a former nanny reveals a decades-old secret about the death of a four-year-old girl whose mother was condemned by their community and who recorded the truth in her prison diaries.
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This was a random library loan for me and I kept postponing it but when I read it, I ended up really enjoying it. Based on true events in Ireland in the late 1800s, the story is told from the dual perspectives of the landowner's wife in prison and one of the servant girls who worked in the house, told in 1968. The events themselves are sad and the writing gets a bit flowery at the end but overall is beautiful and insightful.

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