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The barracks

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Publisher: Faber
Language: English

Breast
Cancer
Fiction
Police
Spouses
Stepmothers
Women and death
Middle-aged women

Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own, and her husband is straining against his job in the police force. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, this is a novel of haunting power.