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Description for The Umbrella Tree
Paperback. Fine copy
From her home in County Wicklow, as Helena Wolff looks back on her childhood growing up in Kenya, she recalls with affection the stories of animal behaviour that her brother Horace told her all those years ago as they played together beneath the umbrella tree. Far away from the world of her childhood, she struggles to come to terms with her traumatic past, as the normal life she has constructed threatens to fall apart. In a novel that spans two continents, The Umbrella Tree is a compelling and moving story, which is full of surprises. There are secrets, lies, deception, ... Read more
From her home in County Wicklow, as Helena Wolff looks back on her childhood growing up in Kenya, she recalls with affection the stories of animal behaviour that her brother Horace told her all those years ago as they played together beneath the umbrella tree. Far away from the world of her childhood, she struggles to come to terms with her traumatic past, as the normal life she has constructed threatens to fall apart. In a novel that spans two continents, The Umbrella Tree is a compelling and moving story, which is full of surprises. There are secrets, lies, deception, ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
New Island Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
, Ireland
ISBN
9781848400481
SKU
KST0010985
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Mary Stanley
Mary Stanley was born in London and raised in Dublin. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, she has lived and worked in Italy, Germany, England, Malta and Ireland. She is the author of five previous novels, a novella, and her short stories appear in a number of different anthologies.
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