"Anti-war and anti-patriarchy without ever saying so
- a bravura performance of effortless elegance" - Irish Echo in
Australia
SHORTLISTED
FOR THE ROMANTIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015
In 1913,
Irish emigrée Eva Downey receives a bequest from an elderly suffragette to
attend a finishing school. There she finds friendship and, eventually, love.
But when war looms and he refuses to enlist, Eva is under family and social
pressure to give the man she loves a white feather of cowardice. The decision
she eventually makes will have lasting consequences for her and everyone around
her.
Journey
with Eva as she battles through a hostile social order and endeavours to resist
it at every turn.
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Susan Lanigan’s first novel White Feathers, a tale of passion, betrayal and war, was selected as one of the final ten in the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2013, and published in 2014 by Brandon Books. The book won critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the UK Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2015. This edition is a reissue with a new cover and foreword.
Her second novel, Lucia’s War, also concerning WWI as well as race, music and motherhood, was published in June 2020 and has been named as the Coffee Pot Book Club Honourable Mention in the Modern Historical Book of the Year Award.
Susan lives by the sea near Cork, Ireland, with her family.
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