The marriage bed
By: Regina McBride.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Women -- Ireland -- Fiction; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction; Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction; Married women -- Fiction; Teenage girls -- Fiction; Ireland -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: ""...To my husband's mother, I was an unassuming girl, a kind of empty vessel like the Virgin Mary who would carry holiness in her womb." So begins The Marriage Bed, the story of Deirdre O'Breen, who comes from the Great Blasket Island, a windswept place off the Irish coast. It is there that something stunning happens to Deirdre's parents, shamefully driving her to the mainland." "The crossing takes her to the civilized world - and toward Manus, the son of a wealthy and devout family. An architect, he is stirred not by God but by imagination: Dublin is struggling to find its way into the twentieth century, and Manus wants to fashion its landscape. Like the city itself, the couple's marriage is fraught with hope and complicated by legacy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Touchstone book."