Norma MacMaster

Epic . . . A stirring novel about redemption, and a way of living soon best forgotten

MacMaster's debut novel is bright with promise

An engrossing debut . . . not just an elegy for a lost world, it also helps explain the intransigence of traditional attitudes in the North and the border counties

Sitting alone in her Dublin nursing home, Harriet Campbell reflects on a life that has become tainted by bitterness and regret. From a strictly Presbyterian community along the Irish border, at sixteen young Harriet is married off to Thomas, a respected church Elder but a cold, sober man twice her age. The birth of her son James, a bright boy destined for great things, brings joy and light to her life. But when he falls in love with a beautiful girl from the wrong faith, their relationship is torn apart. <br/>
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Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Norma MacMaster’s <i>Silence Under a Stone</i> is an intimate, deeply moving story of love, faith and the pain of an irreconcilable heart.

Silence Under A Stone

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Epic . . . A stirring novel about redemption, and a way of living soon best forgotten

Richly portrayed in tight, lucid prose

MacMaster's debut novel is bright with promise

Epic . . . A stirring novel about redemption, and a way of living soon best forgotten

Richly portrayed in tight, lucid prose

MacMaster's debut novel is bright with promise

Epic . . . A stirring novel about redemption, and a way of living soon best forgotten

Richly portrayed in tight, lucid prose

MacMaster's debut novel is bright with promise

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