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The Butterfly Legacy (Paperback)
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The Butterfly Legacy (Paperback)
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July 1952 is teenaged Raleigh Buchanan's last vacation on Country
Pond, New Hampshire, where for the previous two summers he and an
Irish boy had traded notes. Feeling the familiar rush of intrigue,
Raleigh removes the kid's latest note from behind the ceramic
half-moon tacked above the cottage door. The note contains a riddle
half-written in Gaelic. Mystified and irritated, he puts the note
away with other childish things - soon to be forgotten. Twenty-six
years will pass before Raleigh, now a Boston police detective,
realizes that the note holds clues he needs to solve a murder; and
that it contains the key to his true heritage, which began with
star-crossed lovers a century before he was born. Against the
backdrop of Ireland's "Great Hunger," the violent struggle of the
1860s to free Ireland, and "The Troubles" of the 1970s, The
Butterfly Legacy, a 95,000-word historical novel, is a richly
rendered story of Nelly, a young Irish girl and her descendants
that began when she and an English captain fall in love. Resulting
in twins who are separated at birth, their affair ends with the
captain's presumed abandonment of Nelly and her subsequent exile to
Prince Edward Island, Canada where she enters into an arranged
marriage to a man she does not know. From Nelly's near fatal voyage
with the healthier twin across the Atlantic in a "coffin ship" to
the 1978 murder of an Englishman whose brutalized body is found on
the grounds of Winnekenni Castle located in Haverhill,
Massachusetts (the city featured in Andre Dubus's acclaimed
memoire, Townie), the novel traces the adventures of 6 generations
of characters as they encounter adversity and twists of fate,
suicide and other family secrets, misguided patriotism and murder.
These themes - tempered with healthy doses of Irish wit - will
resonate with readers from most any ethnic group as they are drawn
into the pain and joy of difficult lives fully lived.
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2011 |
First published: |
December 2011 |
Authors: |
Kathleen Marie Rice
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
306 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4662-2704-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Crime & mystery >
Historical mysteries
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LSN: |
1-4662-2704-4 |
Barcode: |
9781466227040 |
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