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The Banyan Tree

The Banyan Tree

by Christopher Nolan (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $48.32
Synopsis

On an overgrown and rundown farm in Ireland in the late 1980s widowed Minnie O'Brien (a shopkeeper's daughter in the village) remembers the past: courtship and marriage to craftsman-farmer Peter, the lover of her life, whom she met at a country fair; their wedding and Dublin honeymoon in 1922; life on the farm; the births of three children; and what became of them. Brendan goes off to be a missionary in Africa; Sheila is a nurse at Guy's hospital; Frankie seeks freedom in the Australian outback. Between the turf-cutting and roof-laying, ceilidhs and hurling matches of her early married days and the 'modern' age of mains electricity and 'airoplaines' lie well-worn footpaths of reminiscence down which Minnie rambles contentedly as she waits for her men to come home.

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Format: Paperback
 Publisher: QPD (Quality Paperbacks Direct)
Published: 01 Jan 1999
ISBN 10: 0752826638
ISBN 13: 9780752826639

Author Bio
Christopher Nolan very nearly died at birth from asphyxiation, but survived with severe brain damage, cut off in his own silent world, restricted by a mute and paralysed body. He wrote his first book, of poetry, in 1981, when he was 15, using a 'unicorn' on his forehead to punch the keys of a typewriter. His childhood memoirs, Under the Eye of the Clock, were published in 1987 and s