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After a car accident, 25-year-old O'Leary Montagu is cared for by two women: Mary, the nurse who took him in when the hospital ran out of patience, and Nancy Valentine, author of Ill Fares the Land. Her memoir of an idyllic childhood in Kilbrack, with its cast of idiosyncratic characters ends in her return to the village after sudden, inexplicable banishment to find it abandoned, in utter desolation and ruin. Now, exasperated by his obsession, Mary has left him, fleeing to an early death back in Ireland. Armed with his treasured copy of her book, O'Leary decides to seek out the village that has haunted him, and to write the biography of his muse, Nancy Valentine. But imagine his consternation when he finds the village is not abandoned at all. What has happened to Kilbrack? What has happned to Nancy Valentine and her tale of melancholy beauty?
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1990
Translated into: Polish
Jonny Geller
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