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12016-02-29T14:18:30-08:00Inishowen, 20001Other Work 8plain2016-02-29T14:18:30-08:00This novel follows the stories of Milton Amery, a plastic surgeon from New York, Ellen Donnelly, who has come to Ireland to leave a cheating husband and search for her mother, and Martin Aitken, an inspector who finds a woman collapsed on the street on Christmas Eve. The lives of these very different people merge in Inishowen, a peninsula in the northernmost part of Ireland, in a novel praised as “A powerful, moving adventure of raw fate, betrayed love and ducked responsibilities” (“Inishowen”).
Work Cited “Inishowen.” Joseph O’Connor. www.josephoconnorauthor.com, n.d. Web. 18 February 2016.
