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'Luminous' SEBASTIAN BARRY 'Incandescent characters and mellifluous
prose' LISA CAREY 'Reminiscent of Edith Wharton at her very best'
LIZ NUGENT _________ The true story of a woman ahead of her time .
. . In 1887, Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a
middle-class military family, growing up in a small garrison town.
By 1891 she is the Countess of Clancarty, dubbed "the peasant
countess" by the press, and a member of the Irish aristocracy.
Becoming Belle is the story of the four years in between, of
Belle's rapid ascent and the people that tried to tear her down.
Reimagined by a novelist at the height of her powers, Belle is an
unforgettable woman. Set against an absorbing portrait of Victorian
London, hers is a timeless rags-to-riches story a la Becky Sharpe.
_________ Praise for BECOMING BELLE 'Nuala O'Connor has the
thrilling ability to step back nimbly and enter the deep dance of
time. This is a hidden history laid luminously before us of an
exultant Anglo-Irish woman navigating the dark shoals and the
bright fields of a life' SEBASTIAN BARRY, award-winning author of
The Secret Scripture and Days Without End 'Becoming Belle is so
mesmerizing you will be distraught when it ends.O'Connor has
resurrected a fiery, inexorable woman who rewrites the script on a
stage supposedly ruled by men. Sensual, witty, daring, and
unapologetically forward.' Lisa Carey, author of The Stolen Child
'Belle's determination to live her life on her own terms and in
defiance of her times makes her a fascinating subject' Irish
Central 'Masterful storytelling! I was putty in Nuala O'Connor's
hands. She made the unsinkable Belle Bilton and her down-to-earth
sister Flo real to me, and brought 1880's London to my living room.
Encore! Encore!' Lynn Cullen, bestselling author of Mrs. Poe 'A
glorious novel in which Belle Bilton and 19th century London are
brought roaring to life with exquisite period detail' Hazel Gaynor,
New York Times bestselling author of A Memory of Violets
'Thoroughly engrossing and entertaining read' Liz Nugent
'Thrillingly dramatic and achingly moving and profoundly resonant
into this present era' Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent
from a Strange Mountain 'O'Connor gently unfolds Belle's tale in a
manner that is compelling and disarming. The ambience may be
Victorian elegance but the sheer honesty of O'Connor's writing is
sensual, authentic and earthy. A delight!' Rose Servitova, author
of The Longbourn Letters
Orphaned as a child, Cahal Kinsella returns from an industrial
school in Letterfrack to the small farming village of Caherlo in
West Galway, to live under the rule of his tyrannical grandfather.
Cahal must learn to assert his individuality if he is to have any
hope of freedom from his misery. With humour and humanity, Walter
Macken paints a haunting, memorable portrait of the hard life of
subsistence farming, of loveless arranged marriages, and rebellion
against suffocating social mores. Written in 1952, this masterpiece
is brought back to life in New Island’s Modern Irish Classics
series.
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