Barracks
Stepmothers
18.05 English literature
Spouses
Translations into French
Middle-aged women
Terminally ill
Breast
Ireland, fiction
Married women
Catholics
Married people, fiction
Married people
Country life
Fiction, family life
Fiction in English
Cancer
Fiction, psychological
Police
Manners and customs
Literature
Fiction, romance, general
Social life and customs
Fiction
Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own, and her husband is straining against his job in the police force. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, this is a novel of haun…
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