The island child : a novel /
Aitken, Molly,
The island child : a novel / Molly Aitken. - First American edition. - 335 pages ; 22 cm
"A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
"A spellbinding, deeply felt debut novel--haunting and poignant, soaring and gorgeously wrought--about motherhood, freedom, and our own power to shape our destinies. Oona grew up on the island of Inis: a wind-blasted rock off the coast of Ireland where the men went out on fishing boats and the women tended sheep; where the only book was the Bible; and where girls stayed at home until they became mothers themselves. Even as a child, Oona knew she wanted to leave, but she never could have anticipated the tumultuous turn of events that would ultimately compel her to flee. Now, after twenty years--Oona having forged a new life for herself--her daughter vanishes, forcing Oona to face her past in order, finally, to be free of it. Heralding a singularly gifted new voice in fiction, The Island Child is a timeless story of birth and betrayal, storms and shipwrecks and fairy children, and the weight of long-buried secrets"--
9780525658375 0525658378
2019044205
Girls--Fiction.
Islands--Ireland--Fiction.
Motherhood--Fiction.
Women--Social conditions--Fiction.
Women--Psychology--Fiction.
Superstition--Fiction.
Ireland--Fiction.
Novels.
The island child : a novel / Molly Aitken. - First American edition. - 335 pages ; 22 cm
"A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
"A spellbinding, deeply felt debut novel--haunting and poignant, soaring and gorgeously wrought--about motherhood, freedom, and our own power to shape our destinies. Oona grew up on the island of Inis: a wind-blasted rock off the coast of Ireland where the men went out on fishing boats and the women tended sheep; where the only book was the Bible; and where girls stayed at home until they became mothers themselves. Even as a child, Oona knew she wanted to leave, but she never could have anticipated the tumultuous turn of events that would ultimately compel her to flee. Now, after twenty years--Oona having forged a new life for herself--her daughter vanishes, forcing Oona to face her past in order, finally, to be free of it. Heralding a singularly gifted new voice in fiction, The Island Child is a timeless story of birth and betrayal, storms and shipwrecks and fairy children, and the weight of long-buried secrets"--
9780525658375 0525658378
2019044205
Girls--Fiction.
Islands--Ireland--Fiction.
Motherhood--Fiction.
Women--Social conditions--Fiction.
Women--Psychology--Fiction.
Superstition--Fiction.
Ireland--Fiction.
Novels.