- Dysfunctional families, Fathers, Family problems, Fiction
Coolbar, Ireland, is a village of secrets and Shell, caretaker to her younger brother and sister after the death of their mother and with the absence of their father, is not about to reveal hers until suspicion falls on the wrong person.
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Earnest, contemporary, grave and classical in form.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Siobhan Dowd
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 309
- Publisher
- David Fickling Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385751094
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