num_pages: 356
description: This novel traces a family's history from the northern coast of Ireland in the 1840s, where a young woman embraced a semi-conscious sailor, who had washed in with the tide, to Ontario, Canada. Jane Urquhart has also written The Whirlpool (winner of the Prix du Meilleur Live Etranger).
language: English
title: Away
titlecomplete: Away
genres: Romance, Literature, Literary Fiction, Canadian Literature, Novels, Historical, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Canada, Ireland
ratings_count: 6068
places: Canada, Ireland
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Trillium Book Award, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CBC Canada Reads, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Bloomsbury Books