The Republic by Charles Townshend

The Republic by Charles TownshendThe protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a new sort of country. The damage done, the betrayals and grim compromises put the new nation into a state of trauma for at least a generation, but at a nearly unacceptable cost the struggle

Sephy is a Cross: she lives a life of privilege and power

Kim Jiyoung is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity

They haven't rewritten the stories in this book

Fastidious and fussy

the mother

library or nursery classroom

Or will their experience challenge every ounce of strength they possess

When does a poem tell the truth

and Romantic Novelist Association prize-winner

Jane Bowles

that's no reason for trying to foist one on me

Mouse tries all kinds of tactics to move the pesky Bear but nothing works and poor Mouse gives up