The Cruelty Men

By Emer Martin

Book Overview

Abandoned by her parents when they resettle in Meath, Mary O Conaill faces the task of raising her younger siblings alone. Padraig is disappeared, Se n joins the Christian Brothers, Bridget escapes and her brother Seamus inherits the farm. Maeve is sent to serve a family of shopkeepers in the local town. Later, pregnant and unwed, she is placed in a Magdalene Laundry where her twins are forcibly removed. Spanning the 1930s to the 70s, this sweeping multi-generational family saga follows the psychic and physical displacement of a society in freefall after independence. Wit, poetic nuance, vitality and authenticity inhabit this remarkable novel. The Cruelty Men tells an unsentimental tale of survival in a country proclaimed as independent but subjugated by silence

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843517396
• ISBN13: 9781843517399
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Lilliput Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.3" x 8.5"