December Bride by Sam Hanna Bell
‘perhaps the best novel about Northern Ireland life which has yet appeared’ Irish Times ‘a quiet, compassionate story’ New York Times Sarah Gomartin, the servant girl on Andrew Echlin’s farm on Strangford Lough in County Down, bears a child by one of Andrew’s sons. But which one? Her steadfast refusal over many years to ‘bend and contrive things’ by choosing one of the brothers reverberates through the puritan Presbyterian community, alienating clergy and neighbours, hastening her mother’s death and casting a cold shadow on the lives of her children. A story of love, scandal, and restrictive social mores, December Bride is a classic novel of Ulster life by one of the twentieth-century’s greatest writers, and was made into a major motion picture starring Ciaran Hinds.a quiet, compassionate story
invested with a disquieting and sullen beauty
perhaps the best novel about Northern Irish life, which has yet appeared
Sam Hanna Bell was a novelist, short story writer and playwright. Born in Scotland in 1909 but raised in Raffrey, County Down, he studied at Belfast College of Art. From 1945 to 1969, he was a features producer for the Northern Ireland Home Service (subsequently BBC Radio Ulster). He died in 1990. His first collection of short stories, Summer Loanen, was published in 1943. His novels include The Hollow Ball (1961), A Man Flourishing (1973) and Across the Narrow Sea (1987). His best-loved novel is December Bride. A brilliant film adaptation of the novel starring Donal McCann was released in Irish cinemas in 1990.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780856407789 |
| ISBN 10 | 085640778X |
| Title | December Bride |
| Author | Sam Hanna Bell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Colourpoint Creative Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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