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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book, magical and beautiful imagery until the last 50 pages or so when I had to push to believe in who the character was compared to who she had been.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It has been years since I first discovered this book, but it still haunts me with it's lyrical story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting story.  I loved the irish folklore.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The beginning captivated me with its lyrical language and the mysterious main character Mary who is claimed by a sailor who washes up from the sea and dies in her arms. The book is written like the ebb and flo of the tides.  Heart break of the Irish famine echoes the heart break of how she is entice...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37943585">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[B At first, I wasn't that into this book, but the author's grasp of language quickly caught me. A young woman goes &quot;away&quot;--basically, has some sort of breakdown and is not a part of society. She is brought back to society by a young man who loves her. You see the repetition of some of her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16754863">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What's great about this book is the hybridity of Irish folklore legend and its integration into this piece of Canadian fiction and history. As an American reader, especially at the time I read this novel, I was ignorant that Canada also had an influx of Irish immigrants post-famine. Urquhart provide...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15708654">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I literally couldn't tear myself away from this book when I read it the first time.  The descriptions of the lives of peasant farmers and Anglo-Irish landlords in Ireand immediately before and during the potato famine are haunting. While the second half doesn't quite live up to the  promise of the f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13629905">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this book for a Canadian studies class last year and ended up writing my final essay on it.  it is a sensual, visual, evocative novel that the reader can luxuriate in - like a bubble bath.  urquhart's magic realism is beautiful, and convinced me of the power of love, obsession and the 'otherw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/767430">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Haunting, melancholy and lyrical. Spans generations - from the Irish country side to Canada. Beautifully written. Something I never noticed, it was co-winner of the Trillium Award with Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride. cool.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was pretty good, interesting concept and all, I never really got sucked into the book, so it was on and off for a long time. I enjoyed it but didn't love it or anything. I also hated the way it ended. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favourite books ever. I enjoyed her other books, but this one was just a magical delight. I have read her other novels, but nothing compares to this masterpiece.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Urquhart read. I will never turn back! Her incredible gift of juxtaposition is astonishing as she winds parallel stories across time and continents. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[some magical realism, a lot of wistfulness...not a bad read, sort-of floats on top of the issues of the Irish famine and Irish migration. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really enjoyed it. Takes place east of Toronto and follows a few generations of irish immigrants. Also a good love story.]]></body>
    
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