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The Banyan Tree

The Banyan Tree

Paperback (04 Nov 1999)

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Publisher's Synopsis

On an overgrown and rundown farm in Ireland in the late 1980s widowed Minnie O?Brien (a shopkeeper?s daughter in the village) remembers the past: courtship and marriage to craftsman-farmer Peter, the lover of her life, whom she met at a country fair; their wedding and Dublin honeymoon in 1922; life on the farm; the births of three children; and what became of them. Brendan goes off to be a missionary in Africa; Sheila is a nurse at Guy?s hospital; Frankie seeks freedom in the Australian outback. Between the turf-cutting and roof-laying, ceilidhs and hurling matches of her early married days and the ?modern? age of mains electricity and ?airoplaines? lie well-worn footpaths of reminiscence down which Minnie rambles contentedly as she waits for her men to come home.

Book information

ISBN: 9780752826639
Publisher: Orion
Imprint: Orion Books
Pub date:
Weight: 208g
Height: 178mm
Width: 111mm
Spine width: 24mm