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From the author of The Sins of the Mothers and Telling the Pictures comes a story with a powerful and eternal theme: do goodness and innocence act as shields? Does immorality triumph or get punished?
Helena and Grace are the daughters of Thomas Kane and his resourceful, passionate wife, Ellen, the couple featured in the haunting The Sins of the Mothers. In village Ireland of the 1950s, the Kane girls are innocent young women. Then, into their lives slinks Dennis Sykes, a brilliant and driven man, with a secret history of emotional mayhem and scandal. The Kane girls, lovingly close in fear of their disturbed father, have no defences against this sexual terrorist. As the decades roll forward, the outside world comes to the village of Deanstown. Rural electrification, intended to illuminate the land, brings instead a tragedy as dark as Thomas Kane's moods.
ISBN:9780006493181
