The west's awake

Title The west's awake
Names Grainger, Jean.
Book Number DB128740
Title Status Active
Narrator Waring, Siobhan.
Language English
Annotation "Queenstown, Co Cork. Ireland. 1916 Sixteen-year-old Harp Devereaux is growing up in a country in turmoil. Her mother Rose is struggling to navigate single parenthood, run the Cliff House, and stay out of the way of the authorities. Harp's uncle, Ralph Devereaux, has only one thing on his mind. The port of Queenstown bustles with activity as people traverse the Atlantic either in search of new lives on foreign shores or returning to old familiar ones in Ireland. The Cliff House is fast gaining a reputation as a wonderful place to stay, and the business is going from strength to strength. Rose and Harp have turned their fortunes around and for the first time they are prosperous and independent. But all is not well. Civil and military unrest across the country in the wake of the Easter Rising is threatening to bubble over, and everyone is on edge. The British soldiers are making their presence felt in unpleasant ways, and the return of Ralph Devereaux to what he sees as his ancestral home is poses a serious threat. Just as they are managing the situation, a series of unforeseen events places both Harp and her mother in grave peril. Ralph suddenly holds all the power and is not afraid to wield it. They desperately need help, and there's only one place they can go to get it."-- From publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Medium Digital Books
Local Subject Unrated - UNRAT
Novels
Family Stories - Fiction - FAM
British fiction - 823
English-British literature - 820
LC Subject Romance stories
Mothers and daughters - Fiction
Guesthouses - Fiction
Inheritance and succession - Fiction
Families - Fiction
Cobh (Ireland) - Fiction
Ireland - History - 1910-1921 - Fiction
Historical fiction
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Call Number 823.92 AFI
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress,
Original Publication Reissue of: Ireland : Jean Grainger, 2022. 9781914958427
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