Category:
Adults,
Contemporary,
General Fiction,
NovelLanguage:
EnglishKeywords:
Adult Fiction Book Club Books About Books Contemporary Fiction Historical Fiction Ireland Irish Literature Literary Fiction NovelsWritten by Niall Williams
Read by Jennifer McGrath
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2014
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story….
Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces, and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-grandfather, to her father, Virgil - via pole-vaulting, leaping salmon, poetry and the 3,958 books piled high beneath the two skylights in her room.
Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
Release date: 09-04-14