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House of splendid isolation
O'Brien, Edna2025
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Josie O'Grady is an elderly woman, living alone in her dilapidated big house on the outskirts of a rural Irish village. Then one day her bedroom door swings open to reveal McGreevy, an IRA terrorist on a bloody crusade, who has chosen her isolated house for sanctuary. As days pass, these two outsiders develop a grudging respect for each other, which grows into affection and friendship, but the police net is closing in and, with dawning horror, Josie starts to suspect that McGreevy is not only using her house as a refuge.
Main title:
House of splendid isolation / Edna O'Brien.
Author:
O'Brien, Edna, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2025.
Collation:
256 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994.
ISBN:
9780571397556 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
BRN:
8979926