The island child, a novel, Molly Aitken
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The island child, a novel, Molly Aitken
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
The island child
Oclc number
1122681217
Responsibility statement
Molly Aitken
Sub title
a novel
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
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Subject
- Filles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Women + Social conditions -- Fiction
- Fictional Work
- Novels
- Girls
- Women
- Fiction
- Ireland -- Fiction
- Gender identity
- Girls -- Fiction
- Irlande -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Îles -- Irlande -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Motherhood
- Motherhood -- Fiction
- Women + Psychology -- Fiction
- Superstitions -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Maternité -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Femmes + Psychologie -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Children
- Superstition -- Fiction
- Femmes + Conditions sociales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Islands -- Ireland -- Fiction
- Romans
Content
Author
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre4
- Subject23
- Filles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Women + Social conditions -- Fiction
- Fictional Work
- Novels
- Girls
- Women
- Fiction
- Ireland -- Fiction
- Gender identity
- Girls -- Fiction
- Irlande -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Îles -- Irlande -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Motherhood
- Motherhood -- Fiction
- Women + Psychology -- Fiction
- Superstitions -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Maternité -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Femmes + Psychologie -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Children
- Superstition -- Fiction
- Femmes + Conditions sociales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Islands -- Ireland -- Fiction
- Romans
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1