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The Marriage Bed
The Marriage Bed
Author: Regina McBride
'To my husband's mother, I was a kind of empty vessel like the Virgin Mary who would carry holiness in her womb.' When Deirdre is orphaned aged fourteen, her elderly grandmother takes her from the remote island of her birth to the Enfant de Marie convent on mainland Ireland. Deirdre dutifully trains to become a nun, although it is not her true v...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780749935719
ISBN-10: 0749935715
Publication Date: 5/5/2005
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Piatkus Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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For me, I read this book quickly because I found it enjoyable. It might be a little "slow moving" for some people. The best way to describe the book is what I found written inside the cover of the book " an exquisitely lush and lyrical story about marriage and motherhood, attachment and letting go, set in early twentieth century Dublin.