The Inheritance
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
It's 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O'Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in the stunning Beara Peninsula. When a neighbour dies unexpectedly, Marlo takes over his minibus service to Cork. There is nothing regular about the regulars on the bus - especially Sully, a non-verbal 6 year old, who goes nowhere but does the journey back and forth every day, on his own. Marlo is landed with this a strange but compassionate arrangement, fashioned to give the child's mother respite from his care. Sully's obsession with an imaginary friend in the ancient oak forests of Glengarriff slowly unveils its terrible secrets - a 400-hundred-year-old tragedy reveals itself.
Customer Reviews
Hope and heart, family ties and historical bonds
This book was my first in Irish Historical fiction. 2 time periods woven together with magic and imagery. While the language wasn’t always easy to understand - the tenor and spirit easily distinguished the story. A bit of mystery mashed up with a story of long family ties and family secrets, I really wanted to pick this book up again and again .