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A powerful novel about an extraordinary woman, Catherine O'Hara, who has fled Ireland and her drunken, abusive father to arrive in Glasgow in the early 1960s. Terrorised by the the anger and violence she fears she has inherited, she sends away her only son and takes up with an artist, Peter. But Peter becomes obsessed with possessing her visually in the same way her father possessed her physicially. It is for Catherine to ensure the men who love her do not distort her, and that they do not destroy the one relationship that really matters to her - with her son.
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Catherine O'Hara has run away to Glasgow - "across the water" from a sexually and physically abusive relationship with her father, and comes to find that the violence she has suffered is within her too.
About the Author:
Alex Benzie was born in Glasgow in 1961. His first novel, THE YEAR'S MIDNIGHT, was published by Viking and Penguin. He lives in Glasgow.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 014026504X
- ISBN 13 9780140265040
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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