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For fourteen-year old Nan and her younger sister Mary, the trials of convent life blend uneasily with their innocent yet peculiar home life, where the maid regales them with tales of a lurid past. But harsh reality is looming, a reality that in 1920s Dublin, is very shocking - and very adult. By the author of ROOM FOR A SINGLE LADY.
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Fresh, beautiful and quirky (OBSERVER)
Full of laughter as well as affection ...a midsummer dream (THE TIMES)
Clare Boylan has a light touch... her humour is sure, with a right feeling for the grotesque... the mixture is delicious. (IRISH TIMES)
All the familiar concerns of Clare Boylan's short stories are extended here into a beautifully observed, witty and touching story of growing up in a tyrannical household and surviving. (GOOD HOUSEKEEPING)
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Full of laughter as well as affection ...a midsummer dream (THE TIMES)
Clare Boylan has a light touch... her humour is sure, with a right feeling for the grotesque... the mixture is delicious. (IRISH TIMES)
All the familiar concerns of Clare Boylan's short stories are extended here into a beautifully observed, witty and touching story of growing up in a tyrannical household and surviving. (GOOD HOUSEKEEPING)
* Holy Pictures is a charming tale of eccentricity that brings to mind GOOD BEHAVIOUR by Molly Keane. The characters' story is continued in HOME RULE
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- PublisherHamish Hamilton Ltd
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0241109264
- ISBN 13 9780241109267
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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