Lib Wright is an English nurse who served under the legendary Ms Nightingale and she has been brought to Ireland to watch over a new patient - 11 year old Anna O'Donnell whose parents claim she has not eaten anything since her last birthday, four months ago. It starts in a dreary, rainy Ireland in the latter half of the 19th Century, shortly after the Crimean War. I suppose it just depends how much this kind of tale appeals to you whether or not you want to know more. I can easily see why it won't be for everyone - truth be told, the plot moves fairly slow - but I was just so engrossed in the story and atmosphere. What was that line in the hymn they’d sung at Lib’s school? The night is dark, and I am far from home. That in these dim huts nothing had changed since the age of the Druids and nothing ever would. Lib had a dizzying sense that time could fall into itself like the embers.
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