Patrick Taylor: Irish Country Girl, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Irish Country Girl
- Publisher:
- St. Martins Press-3PL, 01/2011
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780765320735
- Item number:
- 12139660
- Volume:
- 320 Pages
- Weight:
- 446 g
- Format:
- 211 x 141 mm
- Thickness:
- 19 mm
- Release date:
- 4.1.2011
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
Readers of Patrick Taylor's books know Mrs. Kinky Kincaid as the unflappable housekeeper who looks after two frequently frazzled town doctors in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. A trusted fixture in the lives of those around her, it often seems as though Kinky has always been there.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Some forty-odd years before and many miles to the south, the girl who would someday be Kinky Kincaid was Maureen O'Hanlon, a farmer's daughter growing up in the emerald hills and glens of County Cork. A precocious girl on the cusp of womanhood, Maureen has a head full of dreams, a heart open to romance, and something more: a gift for seeing beyond the ordinary into the mystic realm of fairies, spirits, and even the dreaded Banshee, whose terrifying wail she first hears on a snowy night in 1922. . . .
As she grows into a young woman, Maureen finds herself torn between love and her fondest aspirations, for the future is a mystery even for one blessed with the sight. Encountering both joy and sorrow, Maureen at last finds herself on the road to Ballybucklebo-and the strong and compassionate woman she was always destined to become.
An Irish Country Girl is another captivating tale by Patrick Taylor, a true Irish storyteller.
Biography
Patrick Taylor, 1941 in Nordirland geboren, hat Medizin studiert und lange als Landarzt gearbeitet. Um dem Nordirlandkonflikt zu entfliehen, emigrierte er mit seiner Familie Anfang der 70er Jahre nach Kanada. Dort hat er auch sein Talent zum Schreiben entdeckt. Von ihm sind bereits zwei Romane und zahlreiche Kurzgeschichten erschienen. Patrick Taylor lebt heute abwechselnd in Vancouver und seiner irischen Heimat.
