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The Marriage Bed
The Marriage Bed
Author: Regina McBride
"...To my husband's mother, I was an unassuming girl, a kind of empty vessel like the Virgin Mary who would carry holiness in her womb." So begins The Marriage Bed, the story of Deirdre O'Breen, who comes from the Great Blasket Island, a windswept place off the Irish coast. It is there that something stunning happ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780743254977
ISBN-10: 074325497X
Publication Date: 5/25/2004
Pages: 304
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2.8 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Touchstone
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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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.


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