description: Bernadette Hanlon, a Belfast housewife, strives to keep her children apart from the violence that surrounds them. But the world encroaches when her husband is imprisoned for IRA activities, then the British Army kills a young girl. Threatened on all sides, Bernadette is drawn into the only thing that seems to offer hope: the clandestine world of the IRA.
language: English
title: Terrible Beauty: A Novel
titlecomplete: Terrible Beauty: A Novel
ratings_count: 14
publisher: Roberts Rinehart