The Marriage Bed

ISBN-13: 9780743254991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 308 str.

Regina McBride

Opis

The heavy burden of another's family legacy, combined with the unspeakable secret of her own parents' death, plunges Deirdre into unhappiness and despair. Eventually she discovers her strength in this tale where Celtic and the gothic intertwine.

Deirdre OBreen is fourteen when she flees the primitive Great Blasket Island, leaving a stunning family secret in her wake before she arrives on the mainland. There, she finds a foreign, civilized world -- and Manus, the architect son of a wealthy, devout family. Together Deirdre and Manus build a marriage that, like Dublin itself, is fraught with hope and threatened by legacies. When Deirdres secret resurfaces, she is forced to confront the questions "How much of our parents do we carry? Do their sins and frailties shape who we become to our own children?"