Friends Indeed - Softcover

Doyle, Rose

 
9780340771341: Friends Indeed
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ISBN 10: 0340771348 ISBN 13: 9780340771341
Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Nineteenth-century Dublin is a city riven by the greed of an emerging middle class and the unspeakable poverty of the poor. Alicia Buckley and Sarah Rooney, growing up there, embody that divide. Despite their different backgrounds, the girls enjoy an extraordinary friendship, so when Sarah falls pregnant, and is thrown out by her father, Allie doesn't think twice about joining her friend in exile. Neither woman is prepared for the deprivations she will face. Pursuing Sarah's soldier lover Jimmy Vance, they make their way, with baby James to Kildare, where they become part of a community of outcast women, known as the Wrens of the Curragh. Reviled in the local town, the women live rough, savage lives on the outskirts of the army camp. But there is also sharing and trust, through her work as the community's doctor, a liberation for Allie from the stifling expectations of her family. Tragedy, however, forces them to travel to America, but a final twist of fate means that only Alice will reach that brave new world, adopting her friend's son as her own, and eventually agreeing to marry Jimmy Vance to give the child a father.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rose Doyle is a Dublin-based journalist. She has written novels for adults as well as for children.

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Verlag
Hodder & Stoughton
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0340771348
ISBN 13 
9780340771341
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Anzahl der Seiten
480
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