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The way we danced / Sophia Hillan.

By: Publisher: Dublin : Ward River Press, 2016Description: 317 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781781999486 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR6108.I4534 W39 2016
Summary: Edith Barratt, an elderly writer seeing out her last days in a nursing home, has decided to entrust a lifetime of writing to Ruth, to publish after her death. And, by also giving her the 'Memory Book', she breaks a lifetime of silence about a youthful love that has dominated her entire life. ... Starting in Belfast, moving through pre-war Berlin and returning to Ireland's tentative and fragile peace of 1995, Sophia Hillan's new novel traces a path to those things that cannot, in the end, be taken away.
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Loanable Book Library Fiction FIC HIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000412644

The Way We Danced is inspired by the papers of a little-known Belfast writer and teacher, Margaret Grant Cormack, which were left to the Linen Hall Library.


Edith Barratt, an elderly writer seeing out her last days in a nursing home, has decided to entrust a lifetime of writing to Ruth, to publish after her death. And, by also giving her the 'Memory Book', she breaks a lifetime of silence about a youthful love that has dominated her entire life. ...

Starting in Belfast, moving through pre-war Berlin and returning to Ireland's tentative and fragile peace of 1995, Sophia Hillan's new novel traces a path to those things that cannot, in the end, be taken away.

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