For three years, three young girls will lie side by side, strapped onto iron frames on the veranda of a 1940s TB hospital. Just seven years old, the girls will have nothing but their shared thoughts and dreams - dreams of a home that seems as far away as heaven. Set in north Dublin against a background of strict social and religious mores, wartime restrictions and fearsome medical practice, their story is memorably and movingly told. Rich in pathos and humour, it is a story of survival and even triumph over the cruelty of their fate.
A sequel to Flowers of the Fairest, this is an account of the relationship between three girls residing in a 1940s TB hospital. It is about what happened next, as the returning child tries to fit back into family and school life and slowly begins to grow up in the Dublin of those post war years.
Here are spiritual writings of this 14th-century (c. 1343-1396) English Augustinian Canon. Hilton speaks for himself in The Scale of Perfection, and the introduction and notes give the reader orientation.
This companion sheds light on this complex period of British history with its rebellions, the many changes in the Church and developments in the world of learning.
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