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Silence under a stone / Norma MacMaster.

By: Publication details: Dublin : Transworld Ireland, 2018.Description: 284 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781781620441 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: From her bed in a nursing home, Harriet Campbell reflects on the time, long ago, when the second greatest joy in her life was her newborn son James; only her God had a greater claim to her love. It is the 1920s in the shadowlands south of the Irish border. Harriet and her husband Thomas are respected members of their strict Presbyterian congregation; indeed, Thomas has just been made an elder. But this is a changing Ireland, where the sway of the Roman Catholic Church is at its height, and the community is becoming increasingly isolated. Little does Harriet realize that, as James grows up, she will be forced to choose between faith and family. Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Norma MacMaster's Silence Under a Stone is an intimate, deeply moving human story, where sometimes the price of an unyielding faith is too great to bear.
List(s) this item appears in: New acquisitions 2018
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From her bed in a nursing home, Harriet Campbell reflects on the time, long ago, when the second greatest joy in her life was her newborn son James; only her God had a greater claim to her love. It is the 1920s in the shadowlands south of the Irish border. Harriet and her husband Thomas are respected members of their strict Presbyterian congregation; indeed, Thomas has just been made an elder. But this is a changing Ireland, where the sway of the Roman Catholic Church is at its height, and the community is becoming increasingly isolated. Little does Harriet realize that, as James grows up, she will be forced to choose between faith and family. Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Norma MacMaster's Silence Under a Stone is an intimate, deeply moving human story, where sometimes the price of an unyielding faith is too great to bear.

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