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The Watch House

Paperback | English

By (author): Bernie McGill

In the vein of Hannah Kent''s Burial Rites, THE WATCH HOUSE by Bernie McGill is the story of the modern world arriving on Rathlin, a remote Irish island, at the very end of the nineteenth century, with dramatic consequences for a young woman named Nuala.

As the twentieth century dawns on the island of Rathlin, a place ravaged by storms and haunted by past tragedies, Nuala Byrne is faced with a difficult decision. Abandoned by her family for the new world, she receives a proposal from the island''s aging tailor. For the price of a roof over her head, she accepts.

Meanwhile the island is alive with gossip about the strangers who have arrived from the mainland, armed with mysterious equipment which can reportedly steal a person''s words and transmit them through thin air. When Nuala is sent to cook for these men - engineers, who have been sent to Rathlin by Marconi to conduct experiments in the use of wireless telegraphy - she encounters an Italian named Gabriel, who offers her the chance to equip herself with new skills and knowledge. As her friendship with Gabriel opens up horizons beyond the rocky and treacherous cliffs of her island home, Nuala begins to realise that her deal with the tailor was a bargain she should never have struck.

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Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 267g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 17 May 2018
  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781472239587

About Bernie McGill

Bernie McGill was born and raised in Northern Ireland and attended Queen''s University Belfast. Her first novel The Butterfly Cabinet was published by Headline Review in 2011. Bernie is also the author of Sleepwalkers a collection of short fiction (shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize) and a contributor to three acclaimed anthologies of Irish women writers The Long Gaze Back The Glass Shore and Female Lines (New Island 2015 2016 & 2017). She has numerous theatre credits to her name. Bernie lives in Portstewart Northern Ireland with her family.

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