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LIFE SENTENCES - BILLY OCALLAGHAN KARTONIERT (TB)

*THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER* 'Momentous and epic' BERNARD MACLAVERTY 'Superb and moving' JOHN
BANVILLE 'A lovely  piercing book' SEBASTIAN BARRY Three generations. More than a century of
famine  war  violence and love. At sixteen Nancy  the only member of her family to survive the
Great Famine  leaves her small island for the mainland. Finding work in a grand house on the
edge of Cork City  she feels irrepressibly drawn to the charismatic gardener Michael Egan 
sparking a love affair that soon throws her into a fight for her life. In 1920  Nancy's son Jer
has lived through battles of his own as a soldier in the Great War. Now drunk in a jail cell 
he struggles to piece together where he has come from  and who he wants to be. And in the early
1980s  Jer's youngest child Nellie is nearing the end of her life in a council house  moments
away from her childhood home  remembering the night when she and her family stole back
something that was rightfully theirs  she imagines what lies in store for those who will
survive her. 'Brilliantly immerses us in its respective time periods' SUNDAY TIMES

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