The narrator of this wild, highly inventive tale is the orphan Dervla O'Shannon, dubbed "Thistle" because she is "skinny and prickly and unwanted". Reared at Saint Martha's Home for Foundling Girls... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This is a moving, sad book full of the feel of Ireland and adolesecnt yearning and the smell of peat moss. Lovely! Not Hawkes' best but lovely never the less a great read
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