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The Bird Woman

The Bird Woman

Hardie, Kerry

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ISBN10: 0007232772
ISBN13: 9780007232772
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: Apr 2 2007
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The much anticipated second novel from prize-winning Irish poet and novelist, Kerry Hardie.

'The Bird Woman' is a moving account of two marriages, a gift that feels like a curse, and the freedom that lies on the far side of family or group identity.

Ellen McKinnon, red-haired, clairvoyant, fiercely independent, finds her marriage, her health, her sanity threatened when she 'sees' the death of a man in a bomb attack before it has really occurred. Terrified by what's happening to her, she leaves her home, her tribe, her husband, to live with a man she barely knows in Southern Ireland. There she strives to live a normal life in a different culture, to be accepted by her husband's family and friends, to learn a new way of living. Though determined to suppress her 'gift' at any cost, with the birth of her children the clairvoyance changes and broadens into a power to heal. Slowly the rumours spread and the sick seek her out, yet she turns them away from her door.

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