| A Girl Called Rosie Contributor(s): Doughty, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0749019468 ISBN-13: 9780749019464 Publisher: Allison & Busby OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Sagas |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Hamiltons |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 4.3" W x 6.8" (0.45 lbs) 380 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1920's - Cultural Region - Ireland - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 1924. At nearly sixteen, Rosie Hamilton of Liskeyborough, is growing into a lovely young woman. With only another week to go at Miss Wilson's school in Richhill, she is concerned and preoccupied with what her future might hold. Rosie has always had to contend with her mother's fierce and unpredictable temper despite all the efforts of her kind and patient father, Sam. When Rosie has the opportunity to go to Kerry she takes a step into a completely new world and a future that will bring her happiness on the long journey to Kerry. |
Contributor Bio(s): Doughty, Anne: - Anne Doughty was born in Armagh. She is the author of A Few Late Roses (longlisted for the Irish Times fiction prize), Stranger in the Place and Summer of the Hawthorn. After many years in England she returned to Belfast in 1998 and wrote the first of a series of stand-alone novels that make up the Hamiltons sequence. |