| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
335 pages ; 22cm |
| Note |
"A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Girls -- Fiction.
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Islands -- Ireland -- Fiction.
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Motherhood -- Fiction.
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Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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Women -- Psychology -- Fiction.
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Superstition -- Fiction.
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Ireland -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
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Novels.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Aitken, Molly, The island child New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 9780525658382 (DLC) 2019044206 |
| ISBN |
9780525658375 (hardcover) |
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0525658378 (hardcover) |
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9780525658382 (ebook) |
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