Ourselves Alone

by Anne Devlin

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Three women in Belfast dream of escaping the political peril that marks their lives, but cannot because of family loyalties instilled in them and their complicated relationships with men. Freida is a would-be singer whose pro-IRA father disowns her, sending her into the arms of a Worker's Party organizer and anti-IRA zealot. Her sister Josie is in love with an IRA leader, but end up carrying the child of another man. And Donna, who waits five years for her lover to emerge from prison, finds show more that the overbearing and unfaithful man wasn't worth the wait. show less

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Fiction and Literature, Suspense & Thriller
DDC/MDS
822.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish drama1900-1900-1999 20th Century1945-1999
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PR6054 .E923 .O97Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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