A01=Deirdre Purcell
Author_Deirdre Purcell
Category=FBA
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family
father
imprisonment
innocent
love
novel
stepmother
twenty-first century
Product details
- ISBN 9780755333356
- Weight: 389g
- Dimensions: 131 x 199mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2006
- Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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An evocative and dramatic novel told in the voices of two narrators: Violet, who in 1944 is imprisoned in the tower of a rambling country house by her family; and Claudine, a modern-day property negotiator who becomes involved in handling the sale of the derelict Whitecliff in 2004. Violet's story is of young innocent love for a local lad taking an unfortunate twist, while Claudine is a thoroughly twenty-first-century character: daughter of a loving father with a less loving stepmother, she marries in haste after her father's death, and is at a turning point in her life when she starts to find out the true story of Violet. Is happiness a possibility for these women in their separate and very different worlds?
Deirdre Purcell was born and brought up in Dublin, and educated there and in a County Mayo convent. Before turning to the writing of fiction, she lived through an eclectic set of careers, including acting, as a member of the permanent company of Ireland's National Theatre (The Abbey), and journalism for all media - for which she won Ireland's top awards.
