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House of Splendid Isolation

By: Edna O' Brien
Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
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Josie, the ailing, elderly inhabitant of an Irish country mansion, dwells in the shadowy world of remembered pain and loneliness. McGreevy, the terrorist, reintroduces the possibility of compassion and tenderness, but there is an inevitably violent conclusion to their understanding as the police net closes. With extraordinary skill and empathy, Edna O'Brien shows two faces of a divided land: the yearnings of a woman whose youthful joy was broken, and the intransigent idealism of her captor.

©1995 Edna O'Brien (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Compassion

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The music of O’Brien’s had me mesmerised. And often the tragic events she chronicles set me weeping. Fiona Shaw is the perfect storyteller.

Beautifully written - superbly read

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