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#2525 of 8,085 books · #1082 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1990).

Amongst Women was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm where he raises his two sons and three daughters. Adrift from the structure and security of the military, he keeps control by binding his family close to him. But as his children grow older and seek independence, and as the passing years bring with them bewildering change, Moran struggles to find a balance between love and tyranny.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571250189
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Topics
Family and patriarchyIrish rural lifeAftermath of war

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