About all the things family can be and all the things it sometimes isn't. From the prize-winning author of Strange Flowers and The Spinning Heart, The Queen of Dirt Island is a celebration of fierce, loyal love and the powerful stories that bind generations of women together.ĭonal Ryan is from Nenagh in County Tipperary. It's a story of terrible betrayals and fierce loyalties, of isolat ion and togetherness, of transgression, forgiveness, desire, and love.

It involves wives and widows, gunrunners and gougers, sinners and saints. Their story begins at an end and ends at a beginning. You'd have to know them to know - in spite of what the neighbours might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes - that their house is a place of peace, filled with love, a refuge from the sadness and cruelty of the world. The Queen of Dirt Island is an uplifting celebration of fierce, loyal love and the powerful stories that bind generations together'- Provided by publisher.Īthens Regional Library System: Athens-Clarke County LibraryĪthens Regional Library System: Bogart Libraryīartram Trail Regional Library: Mary Willis LibraryĬherokee Regional Library: Dade County Public LibraryĬherokee Regional Library: LaFayette-Walker County LibraryĬonyers-Rockdale Library System: Nancy Guinn Memorial Libraryĭougherty County Public Library: Central Branchįlint River Regional Library System: Fayette County Public Libraryįlint River Regional Library System: Griffin-Spalding County Libraryįlint River Regional Library System: J.The Aylward women of Nenagh, Tipperary, are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it. Of all the things family can be and all the things it sometimes isn't. It's a story of terrible betrayals and fierce loyalties, of isolation and togetherness, of transgression, forgiveness, desire, and love. It involves wives and widows, gunrunners and gougers, sinners and saints. You'd have to know them to know that-in spite of what the neighbors might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes-their house is a place of peace, filled with love, a refuge from the sadness and cruelty of the world.

'You'll never truly understand love until you've read Donal Ryan: a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and the fierce devotion that binds them together The Aylward women of Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it.

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