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Carol Birchs superb new novel kicks off in 1969 when New Yorker Beatrice Conrad arrives to spend the summer in the ruined West of Ireland cottage she has inherited from her grandmother and discovers the bones of a longdead child in a hollow tree behind the house. The grisly find drives Beatrice to investigate the history of the house and its previous inhabitans and we embark on a journey through superstition and bitter family feuds first to her grandmothers girlhood at the turn of the last century and then back to the Potato Famine of the 1840s. Carol Birchs superb new novel kicks off in 1969 when New Yorker Beatrice Conrad arrives to spend the summer in the ruined West of Ireland cottage she has inherited from her grandmother and discovers the bones of a longdead child in a hollow tree behind the house. The grisly find drives Beatrice to investigate the history of the house and its previous inhabitans and we embark on a journey through superstition and bitter family feuds first to her grandmothers girlhood at the turn of the last century and then back to the Potato Famine of the 1840s. «
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