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Ripeness / Sarah Moss.
Van Pelt Library PR6113.O88 R57 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moss, Sarah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life change events--Fiction.
- Life change events.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- English--Italy--Fiction.
- English.
- English--Ireland--Fiction.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Sisters--Fiction.
- Sisters.
- Belonging (Social psychology)--Fiction.
- Belonging (Social psychology).
- Ireland--History--21st century--Fiction.
- Ireland.
- Ireland--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Italy--History--1945-1976--Fiction.
- Italy.
- Ireland--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Picador, 2025.
- Summary:
- It is the 60s and, just out of school, Edith finds herself travelling to rural Italy. She has been sent by her mother with strict instructions: to see her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, through the final weeks of her pregnancy, help at the birth and then make a phone call which will seal this baby's fate, and his mother's. Decades later, happily divorced and newly energised, Edith is living a life of contentment and comfort in Ireland. When her best friend Maebh receives a call from an American man claiming to be her brother, Maebh must decide if she will meet him, and she asks Edith for help. Ripeness is an extraordinary novel about familial love and the communities we create, about migration and new beginnings, and about what it is to have somewhere to belong.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 152903549X
- 9781529035490
- 1529035503
- 9781529035506
- OCLC:
- 1493416918
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000206455
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