The Marriage Bed

Deirdre O'Breen is fourteen when she flees the primitive Great Blasket Island, leaving a stunning family secret in her wake before she arrives on the mainland. There, she finds a foreign, civilized world -- and Manus, the architect son of a wealthy, devout family. Together Deirdre and Manus build a marriage that, like Dublin itself, is fraught with hope and threatened by legacies. When Deirdre's secret resurfaces, she is forced to confront the questions "How much of our parents do we carry? Do their sins and frailties shape who we become to our own children?"

Author: Regina McBride
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 06/07/2005
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780743254991
ISBN10: 0743254996
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | Marriage & Divorce