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THE TRUE AND SPLENDID HISTORY OF THE HARRISTOWN SISTERS
A tale of exploitation and celebrity, illegitimacy and sibling rivalry, love triangles and financial skullduggery, of death and devilry. And a very great deal of hair...
It is the age of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Europe burns with a passion for long, flowing locks.
When seven Irish sisters, fatherless and poor, grow up with hair cascading down their backs, to their ankles, and beyond, men are not slow to recognize their potential. Their hair will raise the sister out of poverty, through the dance halls of Dublin and the palazzos of Venice. But is not their singing and dancing that fills the seats in dusty church halls: it is the torrents of hair they let loose at the end of each show. In an Ireland still hungry and melancholy with the Great Famine, the Swiney hair is a rich offering.
It will bring some of them love and each of them loss. Because fame and fortune only come at a terrible price ...
Michelle Lovric is the author of four novels—Carnevale, The Floating Book (winner of a London Arts Award), The Remedy (longlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize) and The Book of Human Skin, as well as four children's books. Her book Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion was a New York Times bestseller. She divides her time between London and Venice. www.michellelovric.com
When seven Irish sisters, fatherless and poor, grow up with hair cascading down their backs, to their ankles, and beyond, men are not slow to recognize their potential. Their hair will raise the sister out of poverty, through the dance halls of Dublin and the palazzos of Venice. But is not their singing and dancing that fills the seats in dusty church halls: it is the torrents of hair they let loose at the end of each show. In an Ireland still hungry and melancholy with the Great Famine, the Swiney hair is a rich offering.
It will bring some of them love and each of them loss. Because fame and fortune only come at a terrible price ...
Michelle Lovric is the author of four novels—Carnevale, The Floating Book (winner of a London Arts Award), The Remedy (longlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize) and The Book of Human Skin, as well as four children's books. Her book Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion was a New York Times bestseller. She divides her time between London and Venice. www.michellelovric.com
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