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"Solitary, nostalgic Liz Crane returns to her family's now-deserted farmhouse--once the setting for countless happy summers spent on the northern shore of Lake Erie--to study the migratory habits of the Monarch butterfly. Encompassing all the colorful stories and blarney of successful Irish immigrants who have made the most of their relocation to North America, the Cranes' rich family history is now circumscribed by sadness. Liz's beloved cousin Amanda, a gifted military strategist, has been killed in Afghanistan, a loss that had been foreshadowed many years in the past by the disappearance…
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7 editions- Other · English · 2013228 pages · 9781623658151
- Other · English · 2013Quercus · 288 pages · 9780857386397
- Other · English · 2012Quercus · 9780857386403
- Other · English · 2012McClelland & Stewart · 288 pages · 9780771086496
- Other · English · 2012W F Howes · 276 pages · 9781407496993
- Other · English · 2012Quercus · 9780857051271
FarmhousesFictionFamiliesWomen entomologistsFamily secretsFiction, family lifeFiction, psychologicalFiction, family life, general











