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Touchstone, June 2004
eBook, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0743269128
ISBN-13: 9780743269124
Description
Deirdre O'Breen is fourteen when she flees the primitive Great Blasket Island, leaving a stunning family secret in her wake before she arrives on the mainland. There, she finds a foreign, civilized world -- and Manus, the architect son of a wealthy, devout family. Together Deirdre and Manus build a marriage that, like Dublin itself, is fraught with hope and threatened by legacies. When Deirdre's secret resurfaces, she is forced to confront the questions "How much of our parents do we carry? Do their sins and frailties shape who we become to our own children?"
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Table of ContentsJodi Picoult
author of My Sister's Keeper
In The Marriage Bed, Regina McBride carries us across the sea and into her characters' lives with pure poetry. Any modern woman will recognize Deirdre's journey to reconcile her past and her present; and to understand the very alchemy of passion and how it might turn two elements into something else entirely.
Elizabeth Berg
author of The Art of Mending
Reading The Marriage Bed felt like reading one of the great classics: I was enraptured, transported, and fully aware of the fact that I was in the hands of a writer who really knows what she's doing.
Library Journal
...an intense and dramatic story that calls out to the reader like the enchanting Irish Sea...Beautifully written and difficult to put down, this work will appeal to many readers
-- not just those interested in things Irish. It stands on its own as fine writing and should bring McBride new readers.
The Dallas Morning News
Subtle and textured, the novel explores the ties that bind and break in motherhood and marriage.
Lisa Shea
Elle (June issue)
...propelled by a consuming passion for character, language, and place...infused with the rich myths and lore of the Celts, mixed with lusty doses of religion, art, and sexuality.
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