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Big House, The
Aine Greaney
Pocket Books/TownHouse
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190365050X : Paperback
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Related Titles : Fiction
Author Website: http://www.ainegreaney.com

"Greaney's subject matter may be rooted in tradition, but her prose style is modern, taut and edgy, as are many of her characters. There's no doubt but that she has a sharp eye and a wicked turn of phrase...entertaining and incisive."
Sunday Independent

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Price: €8.99

Having left many years before to seek his fortune in London, John McHugh, now a wealthy property developer, returns to Co. Mayo to rediscover his Irish roots.

Against his better judgement, he falls in love with and buys the beautiful but derelict Rathloe House, with grand plans for modernization and development. But McHugh hasn't reckoned on the opposition of the local community who, regarding his progressive plans with suspicion, band together in a determined campaign to save the Big House. With the villagers ranged against him, McHugh has troubles enough.

But a chance encounter with high-tech headhunter Susan Brown ensures the sparks really begin to fly. Only one thing is certain, life in the sleepy, rural village of Rathloe is never going to be quite the same again.





Author Biography

Áine Greaney grew up in The Neale, just outside Ballinrobe in County Mayo. In her mid-twenties, she took a leave of absence from her teaching job in Longford to make a three-month trip to the U.S. It was a trip from which she never returned - many years later she is still there and living in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with her husband Ken.

Áine works part-time as a PR director and also teaches creative writing for the Newburyport Art Association. She has always been an avid writer and her first short story was published in 1996. In 2000, she won Grand Prize in the prestigious Frank O'Connor Short Fiction Award. She has published short stories, essays, reviews, features, travel articles and interviews in many literary and trade journals.



Big House, The


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