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"A breathtaking and redemptive novel from the award-winning and Man Bookernominated author Donal Ryan Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. At 33 years-old, she finds herself pregnant with the child of a 17 year-old Traveller boy, Martin Toppy, and not by her husband Pat. Melody was teaching Martin to read, but now he's gone, and Pat leaves too, full of rage. She's trying to stay in the moment, but the future is looming, while the past won't let her go. It's a good thing that she meets Mary Crothery when she does. Mary is a bold young Traveller woman, and she knows more about Melody than she…

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6 editions · 2 languages
  • Other · English · 2019
    Transworld Ireland · 256 pages · 9781784164997
  • Other · English · 2017
    Transworld Ireland · 256 pages · 9781784160258
  • Other · English · 2017
    180 pages · 9780143131045
  • Other · English · 2016
    187 pages · 9780857524379
  • Other · English · 2016
    The Lilliput Press · 192 pages · 9781843516965
  • Paperback · Spanish · 2021
    La única certeza
    SAJALÍN · 237 pages · 9788412220582
PregnancyFictionTeacher-student relationshipsSecrecyFiction, generalIreland, fictionEnglish literature