The Mending Room by Amanda Bell
Dublin, January 1943. Annie moves through her days with quiet purpose: tending the fires, cycling to her allotment, reading letters at the writing desk where she keeps a bundle tied with ribbon. The city is under the shadow of the Emergency, but in Annie’s house the greatest weight is private. Her son Alec left for Burma six years ago to work on a tea plantation, and the world he travelled to has since been consumed by war. As Annie waits for news, the novel opens outward through letters: from Alec on the Irrawaddy and in the orchid forests of the Shan States, and from his cousin Rose, a painter and naturalist, whose own account reveals the full story.
Amanda Bell is an Irish writer whose studies include a degree in French and English from Trinity College Dublin, a Masters in Poetry Studies, a francophone tour guiding qualification, and a diploma in embroidered textiles. Her publications include fiction, poetry, and translation, and have been awarded a Merit Book Award, Touchstone Distinguished Books Award, the Allingham Prize, and a shortlisting for the Shine Strong Award for best first collection published in Ireland. She is married with two daughters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784634124 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784634123 |
| Title | The Mending Room |
| Author | Amanda Bell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Salt Publishing |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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