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Jennifer Johnston's powerful novel of 1920s Ireland and one girl, on her behalf deathbed, looking back again on the tragic day that modified the span of her life In northwest Ireland, eighteen-year-old Miranda Martin lives in a country estate house with her father. A recently available widower, he spends his days consumed with a task to reforest their tranquil Donegal area. Miranda, on the cusp of adulthood, spends her warmer summer months engrossed in a chaste but excited courtship with an area boy named Cathal. Associates of the Anglo-Irish school and the Protestant Ascendancy, Miranda and her father are sympathetic to the burgeoning movement for home rule. On the far side of the argument is Miranda's sibling, Andrew, a soldier in the United kingdom military through the First World Conflict. On leave from service, Andrew has get back with his good friend and fellow soldier, Harry. Their fateful visit, recalled by Miranda years later, is marked by tensions within the family's disparate politics and culminates in a heartrending cataclysm foreshadowing what's to come for Ireland in the twentieth century.
