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Life Sentences | Billy O'Callaghan
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"Poignant....powerful."--New York Times One Irish family's fight for survival makes for an unforgettable tale of love, abandonment, hunger, and redemption. At just sixteen, Nancy Martin leaves the small island of Cape Clear for the (…more)
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A wonderful novel about the three generations of an Irish family! Well written, great characters...

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"Then, as the hour grew late, she began to sing, something she'd never before done in my hearing, at least not that I could remember Leaning back from the fire's glow and draped in night, she cleared her throat & built an air that was slow in finding its shape Long seconds passed before I recognised the lyrics of her song as Irish & then I could only bow my head, understanding few of the words & let myself be taken along by the lilt of her melody"