Family Memory And Reconciliation In Quietly Powerful Irish F
Mary O'Donnell writes beautifully about the emotional pull of family, place and memory. This is a thoughtful Irish novel that handles ageing, regret and reconciliation with real tenderness and control.
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Family Memory And Reconciliation In Quietly Powerful Irish F
Mary O'Donnell writes beautifully about the emotional pull of family, place and memory. This is a thoughtful Irish novel that handles ageing, regret and reconciliation with real tenderness and control.
- Book Synopsis
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Ideal for readers who:
- Will click with contemporary Irish fiction shaped by family history and uneasy homecomings
- Are drawn to stories of sisters, ageing parents and long-suppressed truths
- Find themselves pulled towards novels steeped in memory, place and emotional reckoning
- Prefer reflective, tender and quietly powerful reading
Mary O'Donnell turns Kilnavarn House into more than a setting: it becomes a living repository of memory, hurt and unfinished feeling. As two sisters care for their frail mother, old tensions begin to stir and the past presses insistently into the present.
What follows is a thoughtful novel about family responsibility, difficult inheritance and the strange hold a childhood home can keep over adult lives. O'Donnell writes with delicacy, but never without emotional weight.
Sweep the Cobwebs Off the Sky is especially likely to appeal to readers who like contemporary fiction attentive to atmosphere, reconciliation and the complicated ties that bind families together.
- About The Author
- Mary O'Donnell has been publishing novels, short stories and poetry since 1990 and her work is regarded as key in expanding the horizons of Ireland's traditionally male-dominated literary world.The Light Makers, Mary's debut best-selling novel, received the Sunday Tribune's Best New Irish Novel 1992 Award and her other published novels include The Elysium Testament and Where They Lie. Her most recent and highly praised collection of short stories, Walking Ghosts was published in 2025. Her poetry has been translated into Hungarian, Spanish and Portuguese In 2023 she received an An Post Irish Book Award for her political poem Vectors in Kabul.Mary has taught Creative Writing at the universities of Galway, Maynooth, University College Dublin and University College Cork, as well as for the University of S¦o Paulo. Mary has also held several prominent international writing residencies including at the Princess Grace Irish Library Monaco, the Irish College in Paris, and the Irish College in Leuven and she is a member of Ireland's affiliation of artists, Aosdána.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781068716256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- époque press, (19 March 2026)
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 mm
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