num_pages: 240
description: In a series of four interlinked novellas, four generations of an Irish farm family share unfulfilled dreams, missed opportunities, and compromised moral decisions, from a dairyman who falls for the younger sister of a woman he jilted, to a spinster who remembers her love for a soldier shattered by his World War I experiences. A first collection. 20,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Hill Road
titlecomplete: The Hill Road
genres: Ireland, Irish Literature, Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 153
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The Story Prize
publisher: Viking