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The Political Map of the Heart (Original Fiction in Paperback)
The Political Map of the Heart - Original Fiction in Paperback Author:Pat Gray Doomed love, set against the backdrop of Ireland's troubles. Brutually pessimistic and agonisingly romantic, the story recaptures the spirit of a lost Ireland. An English family is stranded in the apparent backwater of Ulster at the end of the Second World War. Bernard, the flawed, eccentric father, was injured in the war; Eileen, his wife, ... more »and their three children are torn apart as the troubles engulf them. Initially written in one twenty-four hour period, the story has been revised and extended to full length, a modern classic, for the first time--lyrical, elegiac and fatalistic.« less