![]() ![]() ![]() There’s Tress, her loving and understanding older sister, and a loving and hard-working father who owns their family-run hotel. She is being taught to read and speak by ‘Mamo’, her Irish grandmother who was widowed on the voyage over to Canada. But in every other respect she’s massively fortunate. We’re almost always inside the head of Grania O’Neill, and it isn’t always a comfortable place to be: she’s been deaf since contracting scarlet fever three years ago at the age of five. It’s written in the historical present that is the tense of choice amongst writers of historical fiction: it must seem like a way to get the reader involved and to be persuaded that, somehow, these are not ancient, long-dead stories. This is a first novel by a poet and writer of short stories. ![]()
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