The ninth hour
McDermott, Alice2018
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On a gloomy February afternoon, Jim sends his wife Annie out to do the shopping before dark falls. He seals their meagre apartment, unhooks the gas tube inside the oven, and inhales. Sister St. Saviour, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, catches the scent of fire doused with water and hurries to the scene: a gathered crowd, firemen and the distraught young widow. Moved by the girl's plight, and her unborn child, the wise nun finds Annie work in the convent's laundry - where, in turn, her daughter will grow up amidst the crank of the wringer and the hiss of the iron.
Main title:
The ninth hour / Alice McDermott.
Author:
McDermott, Alice, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
247 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2017.
ISBN:
9781408854631 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6FICTION
Language:
English
BRN:
2681333