Spindle Tree (eBook)

A Story of Lost Childhood and Redemption in the Irish Midlands

Danny Dunne (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
492 Seiten
Danny Dunne (Verlag)
978-1-912328-15-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Atmospheric Irish suspense novel capturing a nostalgic era in Irish cultureSarah knows what happened to the Larkin children. They were spirited away somewhere because their father had abandoned them when their mother died. Her own mother too is very ill. What will happen if she dies when her father is away working in England? But then, her mother dies suddenly and there is no sign of her father returning. She has to take drastic measures, and hide her body to pretend to the world that nothing has happened. Life on the outside must go on as normal. When her Dad comes home, he'll know what to do. But as the days wear on, there is no sign of him. Meanwhile, she and her brothers are led into a maze of events outside their control, which will draw them back many years later to confront their past. What will they find there? Will the whole house of cards come crashing down on them, or will they find redemption?This is a tragic but gripping Irish story about a young family struggling to cope after losing a parent. With their mother gone and not knowing where their father is, they risk everything to keep their tight family together when everything seems to be working against them. Suddenly they find themselves taking on roles and facing challenges they never wanted to experience, all the while pretending to be normal while living a lie! Worried they will become orphans and separated from each other like the Larkin children, this really is a poignant story of a lost childhood and redemption.

Inhalt

Part One: The Travelling Show

Chapter 1: August 1962

Chapter 2: The Harvest

Chapter 3: Meg

Chapter 4: A Night of Melodrama

Chapter 5: The Dance

Chapter 6: The Flicks

Chapter 7: The Promise

Chapter 8: Confrontation

Chapter 9: Departure

Chapter 10: The Sally Army

Chapter 11: The Long Night

Chapter 12: Packy’s idea

Part 2: The Mausoleum

Chapter 13: Night Journey

Chapter 14: An Angel returns

Chapter 15: Meg’s Story

Chapter 16: The drama begins

Chapter 17: Mad Mary Strikes

Chapter 18: Birth

Chapter 19: Fr Doyle’s Concerns

Chapter 20: Sunday Mass

Chapter 21: Seán

Chapter 22: Mr Thomas

Chapter 23: Merry Christmas Sergeant Greene

Chapter 24: Eileen

Chapter 25: Christmas 1962

Chapter 26: ‘The Wren! The Wren!’

Chapter 27: Walking Back to Happiness

Part Three: Snow

Chapter 28: The Fender

Chapter 29: Cars and Trains

Chapter 30: The Snowstorm

Chapter 31: Happy New Year

Chapter 32: Snowball Fight

Chapter 33: The Telephone Call

Chapter 34: A Letter from Glasgow

Chapter 35: The New Master

Part Four: Convalescence

Chapter 36: John’s Return

Chapter 37: Let her rest in peace

Chapter 38: Sarah the thief

Chapter 39: Meg’s departure

Chapter 40: In the doldrums

Chapter 41: Joe’s Shiner

Chapter 42: The Decision

Chapter 43: All’s well in love and war

Chapter 44: Thinking of nice things

Chapter 45: Easter 1963

Chapter 46: The Sweetheart I once knew

Part Five: The Lake

Chapter 47: Measles and Nursemaids

Chapter 48: The Fishing Trip

Chapter 49: A Great Big House of Cards

Chapter 50: Departures

Chapter 51: Moving on

Part Six: The Return

Chapter 52: ‘I will care for you for the rest of my life.’

Chapter 53: The Return

Chapter 54: The Funeral

Chapter 55: Pat’s Story

Chapter 56: Requiescat in Pace

Epilogue

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.6.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Schlagworte: betrayal • burial • Childhood • Coming of Age • Danny Dunne • Death • Dying • Emotional • Family history • family issues • family life • Forgiveness • Friendship • Graveyard • Grief • hide body • historical fiction • Ireland • Irish Drama • Irish fiction • Irish midlands • Irish stories • keeping quiet • living a lie • Losing parent • Loss • mauseleum • Mother gone • moving • moving on • Orphans • Parents • Peace • Pretending to be normal • Redemption • Secret • social issues • Tragedy • Where is my father • World literature
• ISBN-10: 1-912328-15-1 / 1912328151
• ISBN-13: 978-1-912328-15-4 / 9781912328154