- Hardcover: 420 pages
- Publisher: St Martins Pr (January 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312152892
- ISBN-13: 978-0312152895
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.7 x 3.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
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From Publishers Weekly
It's a familiar story. In the mid 1800s, a poor, beautiful Irish Catholic girl, Brid Flynn, falls in love with handsome Harry Leighton, the English Protestant son of a local landowner, despite the fact that a steadfast local lad is seeking her hand. After several secret assignations, declarations of undying devotion and one romantic lovemaking session in a hut in the rain, Harry is off to London and Brid is in hot pursuit. Because Harry takes her around London and they are seen together in public, Brid clings to the belief that she will marry him eventually. But when Harry becomes heir to the family title after his brother's death, Brid learns that he has been secretly engaged to an heiress. Pregnant and bereft of family and friends, spunky Brid retreats to a convent. Soon, however, she embarks upon a career as a barmaid and music-hall entertainer, eventually making a trip to America. This debut romance contains nearly every stereotype of the genre, exacerbated by the fact that Brid's unquenchable yearning for Harry seems more pathological than passionate. Moreover, Hardy never invests Brid with the strength and presence that might convince readers that she will eventually walk with kings and Vanderbilts without losing the common touch.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This conventional tale of unrequited love records the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of Brid Flynn, an Irish innocent in Victorian England. Brid is seduced and abandoned by Harry Leighton, the younger son of the local lord. Alone in London, she is forced to give up the son she bears. Brid, however, overcomes adversity and goes on to a successful career on the stage, eventually making a good marriage and returning to her Irish village as a grand lady. Hardy's first novel vividly displays the author's firsthand knowledge of the theater and is an accurate portrayal of the life of an actress on the Victorian stage. The plot and characters, on the other hand, are pedestrian. This story has been told before, often as well if not better. Recommended for public libraries where historical romances are in demand.?Andrea Caron Kempf, Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, Kan.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Breathtaking Sweeping Novel, Sep 5 2001
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This review is from: Far from Home (Hardcover)
This was an absolute beautiful novel. It completely enraptures you. It is quite similiar to Tess of the Derbyvilles. You become connected to the main charachter Brin. A definite literary classic!
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