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Synopsis
When aristocratic Englishwoman Elinore Dubois married a handsome young Irishman, her mother warned her that he would give her ten children and leave her destitute. In fact there are only nine Devlins, but in a two-roomed Dublin tenement, Elinore vents her disappointment on her seven daughters and in particular, on beautiful Daisy, whose refusal to accept the grim realities of her life infuriates Mama - and masks the tragic secret of her childhood. Set in Dublin at the turn of the century, Home Rule is a vivid and poignant portrait of a family of spirited girls at the disposal of men and mothers and a celebration of the humourless life force that sustains them.
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Review
Sinful, funny and rueful (OBSERVER)
Demonstrates Boylan's talent for bringing colour to the sepia snapshots of her family album ... vivid (Independent on Sunday)
Boylan's imagination has a brilliant edge of eccentricity... contains moments of pure, unadulterated magic (Cosmopolitan)
Marvellous ... Truly, Boylan writes like an angel, but an angel with a knowing look in her eye (Daily Mail)
Book Description
* Comparable to Molly Keane, this is a brilliant portrait of an eccentric Anglo-Irish famiily.
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- PublisherHamish Hamilton
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0241133130
- ISBN 13 9780241133132
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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